Re: Do I really need a wild card certificate ?

Well, depending on your needs and number of sites you plan to SSL'ed.
Wildcard cert is typicall more expensive then normal SSL cert, also wildcard
cert work at top domain level. e.g. all your sites must have the same
*.domain.com, else you need more than 1 cert.

With w2k3 SP1, you can sort of have host header work with SSL cert, but take
note again the catch here is that all sites must be in same top domain
*.domain.com

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Bernard Cheah
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"Mike_IntermediateVB" <MikeIntermediateVB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:F2A32E8E-C589-45C0-A095-A5B326961023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am trying to set up a virtual directory that uses SSL (at the moment it
just contains index.htm). Once all the various settings are set I can
navigate to this page from within my network (but external sites produce a
page not found error) If I switch off â??Require SSLâ?? I can navigate to
the
index page no problem (internal and external). I have tried various fixs
to
this probelm, but I think the issue could be to do with host headers ?

We use host headers because we have a few sites hosted on our webserver.
My
question is do I really need a wildcard cert? I ask because (other than it
being a pain/cost to sort out) we host OWA on this sever as well and it
uses
SSL and does not seam to have a wild card cert ?!?!


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