SSL and Subdomains

[SteveC]

I have installed an SSL certificate (generated through WHM), but it doesn't seem to work with the subdomains. If I go to https://subdomain.mydomain.com it displays the index page from https://www.mydomain.com instead of the index page from the subdomain. Anybody know how I can correct this?

Thanks!

[knightfoo]

This is due to the fact that SSL does not support name-based hosting. If you wish to have different content on https://www.domain.com and https://subdomain.domain.com, you would need to put each of them on a different IP address with their own SSL certificate.

-knightfoo

[vabtz]

Another option is to get a wildcard SSL certificate which can get quite expensive. It will allow you to have one certificate for all your subdomains & the main domain.

[Tino Didriksen]

There does remain the option of using different ports.

You could have the main SSL on https://subalpha.yourdomain.com/, and another on https://subbeta.yourdomain.com:6001/ or similar.

Possible, but largely unused...I guess it's doesn't look professional enough. Works, though.