Re: Multiple Certificates

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch@ntlworld.com)
Date: 07/17/02 

From: Paul Lynch <paul.lynch@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:29:58 +0100

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:52:38 -0700, "Lisa"
<travail@maddeninghappenings.com> wrote:

>One server, two IP Addresses, two total server
>certificates; one for each DNS name.
>
>Turns out IIS will only use one certificate since IIS
>allows only one server certificate per actual hardware
>server (it ignores logical difference of web sites and
>IPs).
>
>So now that my certificate scheme is useless, how do I
>instead go about assigning /some kind/ (if not a 'server
>certificate') of unique certificate for each different web
>site?
>
>I don't want to use one of the two certificates I have
>because if I do then the site not named in the certificate
>causes the user's browser to exclaim that the certificate
>does not match the name of the web site. So my original
>certificates can only be used for stand-alone servers
>which they're not.
>
>Thanks.

IIS doesn't only allow one certificate per server - it allows one
certificate per IP address. If you have more than one IP address on
your server you can have more than one certificate.

Does the domain name on the certificate match the domain name of the
web site exactly ?

Paul

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