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Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Jon Garvin
May 12, 2009 11:45AM
Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:54:50AM -0600, Jon Garvin wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks Igor,
>> Are you saying that a single instance Nginx cannot handle multiple
>> sites with different SSL certificates? The environment I'm trying to
>> emulate is working just fine with Pound right now. In other words, one
>> instance of pound is running on my server that handles multiple SSL
>> certificates for multiple live domains (working like this for several
>> years). Seems to me if Pound can handle the task, Nginx ought to be
>> able to as well. Is the only option to run Pound in front of Nginx so
>> that Pound can handle the SSL before passing the traffic off to Nginx?
>> I was hoping to eliminate Pound from the equation all together.
>>
>
> No, a single nginx instance can handle several SSL sites, but you need
> several IP, one per each SSL host. Or you may use some workarounds as
> decribed here
> http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/VhostTaskForce
>
>
Yes. we have multiple IPs. As I said this is working now with Pound.
I'm just having trouble figuring out how to configure Nginx to handle this.

Oh, wait. I just noticed that the 'listen' directive can take an
address as well as a port. duh. So, my guess now is that instead of
'listen 443', I need to say 'listen x.x.x.x:443', in each server block.
right?

>> Igor Sysoev wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:57:10PM -0600, Jonathan Garvin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm in the process of trying to convert a Pound config file that manages
>>>> multiple SSL sites over to Nginx. If I just have one site setup in the
>>>> nginx.conf file then everything, including the SSL, works fine. But if I
>>>> add a second server block for a different domain, then the second tries
>>>> to use the SSL certificate for the first, resulting in the browser
>>>> raising security warnings. My conf file is below. Any hints at what I
>>>> am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts
>>> http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/VhostTaskForce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Subject Author Posted

setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Jonathan Garvin May 11, 2009 07:57PM

Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Igor Sysoev May 12, 2009 01:48AM

Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Jon Garvin May 12, 2009 10:54AM

Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Igor Sysoev May 12, 2009 10:59AM

Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Jon Garvin May 12, 2009 11:45AM

Re: setup multiple SSL servers in one config

Igor Sysoev May 12, 2009 11:50AM



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