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From: Arun G Nair [mailto:arungnair@xxxxxxxxx]
> Atlast I got it working !!!! So name based virtual hosting *is* possible with mod_ssl.
No it isn't. You only have encryption working. You do not have authentication.
Just to put the record straight for anyone in the future who might read this thread, the poster is running a development setup and is only interested in having the HTTP session encrypted. He does not car that all the namebsed hosts are using the same certificate (the cert from the first VH). THis is fine if you only want to encrypt the traffic but is useless in a commercial environement where it is essential that the common name in the cert matches the URL the user typed in. Put it this way; would you be happy to type your credit-card number into a webpage which had "amazon" in the address bar but where if you looked into the cert you saw that the common name was "dodgy-dealer.com"?
Another analogy: if you had a million dollars to send to the bank and an armoured car arrived to collect it, would you be happy to put your cash in the car? It would be safe from robbers on its way to the bank, but how would you know it was really going to go to the bank? You'd ask the driver for some ID, I'd hope!
In the real world, authentication is every bit as important as encrpytion so this is no real solution.
Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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----------httpd.conf---------
< IfModule mod_ssl.c > Listen 443 Listen 80 AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl< / IfModule >< IfModule mod_ssl.c >
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin SSLSessionCache dbm:/var/run/ssl_scache SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300 SSLMutex file:/var/run/ssl_mutex
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLRandomSeed connect builtin< / IfModule >NameVirtualHost 172.16.2.0:80<VirtualHost
172.16.2.0:80> ServerName abcn.com DocumentRoot /var/www/abc</VirtualHost># SSL Virtual HostsNameVirtualHost
172.16.2.0:443< VirtualHost 172.16.2.0:443 > DocumentRoot /var/www/abc ServerName secure.abcn.com SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/ssl.crt/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/ssl.key/server.pem SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown CustomLog /var/log/ssl_request_log \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"< / VirtualHost >
----------httpd.conf---------
Let me know if this can be trimmed down some more. Thanx everyone, especially Davide.
Regards,
Arun
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