IIS 5.0 support for multiple SSL identities for web site !!

Hi,

On an IIS 4.0 server, we have a specific web site that hosts three different
SSL identities, where each SSL certificate obviously bears a different
common name (URL) and is bound to a different IP address.

We're preparing an IIS 5.0 server to replace this IIS 4.0 server. We cannot
reproduce the same configuration with the multiple SSL identities for that
one web site.

We found a document on Microsoft's web site that mentions that only one
server certificate can be assigned per web site with IIS 5.0. Is this so?
Does a workaround exist for this situation? Because of the nature of this
web application and the manner in which it is launched by the calling web
applications, it may not lend itself very well to multiple instances without
a rewrite of our Java applications, not a very appealing solution...

Thank for yor help....

José.

This "should" have been in the behavior in IIS4. But, no worries; here is what you want to do:

create multiple sites
map home directory to the same place
bind each site to its associated IP and certificate

This is the supported way of doing things, will not cause you any issues. The IPs have to be bound to the NIC on the box to be populated in IIS.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| Hi,
|
| On an IIS 4.0 server, we have a specific web site that hosts three different
| SSL identities, where each SSL certificate obviously bears a different
| common name (URL) and is bound to a different IP address.
|
| We're preparing an IIS 5.0 server to replace this IIS 4.0 server. We cannot
| reproduce the same configuration with the multiple SSL identities for that
| one web site.
|
| We found a document on Microsoft's web site that mentions that only one
| server certificate can be assigned per web site with IIS 5.0. Is this so?
| Does a workaround exist for this situation? Because of the nature of this
| web application and the manner in which it is launched by the calling web
| applications, it may not lend itself very well to multiple instances without
| a rewrite of our Java applications, not a very appealing solution...
|
| Thank for yor help....
|
| José.
|
|
|