I have two sites running on a single Umbraco installation (using Umbraco hostnames). I have been asked to install an SSL certificate for each site. IIS only supports a single SSL certificate for each IIS site so I think the only way to achieve this is to set up 2 IIS sites and point each to the same folder in the file system. I can then install an SSL ceritifcate for each IIS site.
The problem is that when i do this the 2nd site does not recognise the hostnames I have setup in Umbraco and is instead serving content from the 1st site. Is there a reason for this? and a way around it?
Have you removed the hostname from the first IIS instance? I may be intercepting the domain name first and not allowing it to move onto the second IIS instance.
1 Umbraco installation 2 SSL certificates
I have two sites running on a single Umbraco installation (using Umbraco hostnames). I have been asked to install an SSL certificate for each site. IIS only supports a single SSL certificate for each IIS site so I think the only way to achieve this is to set up 2 IIS sites and point each to the same folder in the file system. I can then install an SSL ceritifcate for each IIS site.
The problem is that when i do this the 2nd site does not recognise the hostnames I have setup in Umbraco and is instead serving content from the 1st site. Is there a reason for this? and a way around it?
Umbraco 3 / ASP.NET 2 / Windows Server 2003
Thanks
Have you removed the hostname from the first IIS instance? I may be intercepting the domain name first and not allowing it to move onto the second IIS instance.
Yes, i did that.
The site did eventually start displaying correctly so i'm presuming there is some sort of caching going on which caused the problem.
Is there any documentation available on this?
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I don't know of any documentation. i would have thought this change would not have been cached on the server, maye by a client browser or proxy.
There is another option: Wildcard certificates and company related certificates. The cons: very expensive...
Check out the documentation of globalsign or verisign...
hth, Thomas
See at globalsign: http://globalsign.com/ssl/buy-ssl-certificates/wildcard-ssl/
Thomas
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