Even with Apache? Surely you can configure the web server to virtual-host two separate domains both with SSL support?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lutz Jaenicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: Re: your mail > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:47:39PM -0500, Jason Hendriks wrote: > > I needed an SSL certificate for my POP3-SSL server (ipopd), so I created a self-signed certificate using the CA.pl tool and openssl. It works fine, but my question is since there are two domains for this machine's IP, how can I create a certificate for more than one common name? Do I have to create two certificates and configure the daemon to look at both? Or do I combine two certificates into one somehow? > > It is not possible to have two domains on one IP, as there is only one > CommonName entry available in a certificate. > In the future it may be possible to have more than one entry by using > the dNSName feature of SubjectAlternateName, but as far as I know, > this is not widely supported by client software (read this last statement: > I don't know of any client software supporting it). > > Best regards, > Lutz > -- > Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ > Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 > Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus Fax. +49 355 69-4153 > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
