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Multiple secure virtual hosts

How do ISP's do it?

         

colweb

10:07 am on May 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I'm wondering how ISP's configurate Apache to hosts ssl secure sites?

With mod_ssl it is possible to hosts 1 secure site per ip-address. Are ISP's using different ip-addresses for all the secure sites they are hosting? Or is there is trick to get name based secure sites working that we don't know about?

Currently I use mod_gnutls to hosts 3 secure sites on my own server (name based) and thats working perfectly. But I wonder if mod_gnutls is as secure as mod_ssl.

Mod_gnutls can be found here: [outoforder.cc...]

My problem with mod_ssl is simple. I do have 1 public ip-address and the secure sites I'm hosting are in a external DNS server. So any request comes to the same ip-address and is forwarded to the apache server. With 1 sercure site this is no problem. But with 3 it is.

Anybody know how IPS's handle the hosting of 1000's of secure sites?

colweb

9:55 am on May 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



No reaction yet. Nobody?

Any guru's out there ?