On Jun 27, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Noam Birnbaum wrote:
Hey all,
A customer would like to purchase a single SSL certificate (to save
money and administration hassles) that will secure all their
subdomains. In general I would recommend a wildcard cert for this,
except they have 3 servers that need the encryption, each providing
different services (web, mail, etc.) for their subdomains.
My understanding is that a single wildcard certificate will only
work on one box.
Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
I've never used wildcard SSL certificates, but I have used 'regular'
certs on multiple boxes. In the latter case, there's really no trick
to it at all, just do it like you would on one box. I've only done
this in the context of round-robin DNS, and it worked fine. I've
noticed that SSL vendors in particular usually won't tell you how to
save money on SSL certificates ;)
