I have a machine with multiple websites. The websites do not use the same domain name. As an example one website is test.test1.com another is test.test2.com. I also have a UC certificate that lists all of the domains but it doesn't use the wildcard * in any of the domains. When I try to create bindings for each I can't add the host header to the binding for https. If I use appcmd for the second domain I can no longer access the first domain.
How do I setup the bindings so I can access test.test1.com as the default for port 443 and test.test2.com only when that is the host header?
Thanks for the help!!
Gary
In IIS 7 you can not have SSL bindings based on host headers. If you want multiple sites with https and don't have a wildcard certificate, you have to use multiple IP addresses, one for each SSL site. Just add IP addresses to the OS and set up DNS entries for them, then you bind the sites against those IP addresses, not their host names.
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We have a SharePoint site https://example.com hosted on port 443.
There is another site https://anotherexample.com that should be hosted on same server and without port (i.e. 443).
Both the certificates are issued to different host names (i.e. not wildcard certificate).
How can I achieve above scenario?
Any help is much appreciated!
Edit: I'm working on IIS 8.
Best way to achieve this on IIS 8 is to use Server Name Indication. It allows the server to host multiple certificates for multiple sites under a single IP address.
For more detailed instructions, please refer here.
I have a IIS7 server with several sites on it lets call them 'Site A','Site B','Site C','Site D' and 'Site E'. Site A to C are basic sites and share a common IP (this is the default server IP), Sites D and E host more complex sites and each have a unique IPs and SSL certs assigned (these IP's are from a different block).
When for some reason a user trys to connect to sites A to C with https:// they get an SSL error and are shown 'Site D's' certificate name.
I cannot see how this is being assigned, and I would have thought the separate IPs would not have allowed this to occur. The cert assigned is alphabetically superior and was also created first. So that might be the reason why?
I can't understand why a cert that is not specifically assign to an IP is being used - especially for site that aren't eve using port 443 and after searching around have not been able to find this discussed.
It is very likely that your server's initially setup does not match your description right now, which leads to inconsistent certificate mapping resides in http.sys settings.
You can run netsh http show sslcert to print out all existing mappings and revise them accordingly.
For example, sites bind to certain IPs should have their certificates map to those IP addresses only, instead of 0.0.0.0 which interferes with other sites.
I am having some trouble with hosing.
Currently on our server have have 6 or so IIS sites hosted. They are all http currently: and work on port 80 with the host names set.
Now I want to go an change them to use SSL. But this then removes the ability to use the Host headers.
I have tried using self generated ssl cert from within IIS Manager before I go out and buy real ones. But the issue I am having is that it seems that the SSL cert is linked to an IP address. I can add the ssl cert to one site. But after that When I try assign site 2. it says that there are no Ip addresses.
So My question which Im hoping someone can explain how it works when multiple sites are hosted with iis on the same machine.
Do I have to get a wildcard SSL Certificate?
Do I need to have a unique IP address for each site being hosted?
If not, could somebosy please help and try explain to me what I need to do in order to achieve this.
I have one website configured for Windows Server 2012 IIS 8. This one website can be accessed by xyz.com or abc.com (2 different top level domain names). Is it possible to configure SSLs for both?
Yes. You can configure two different domains with two different certificates for the same IP and port no(443). After providing the domain name in Binding, enable check box Require Server Name Identification(IIS8). If you do not enable this check box, two websites will have the same single certificate, if you change one website binding file, it will reflect in other website also.. I have experienced.
Please refer below link.
http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/fred/host-different-ssls-on-one-ip-with-iis-8-sni/
As Windows Azure web site is powered by IIS, you can see from the offerings that it is possible to bind multiple SSL to a single site,
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/#web-sites
The trick is to use SNI,
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-server-name-indication-sni-ssl-scalability
Yes you can add multiple https bindings each with their own separate ssl certificate to the same site in IIS. However you'll want to bind them to separate IP addresses so that the certificate for xyz.com is bound using the IP address for xyz.com, and the certificate for abc.com is bound using the IP address for abc.com. But frankly, it'd be better practice to have one redirect to the other, or just make 2 sites in IIS and keep everything separate.
We have a Windows Server 2003 machine running IIS6.0 that hosts two different websites. We purchased an SSL certificate for both domains, but then discovered we couldn't use both at once because SSL uses port 443, and I can't set both domains to use that port number.
So my question is, is it possible to host https://www.domain1.com and https://www.domain2.com on the same IIS 6.0 server? If so, how can I do this?
As #Bahri Gungor said the way to do this is for the server to have multiple IP addresses, have the different domains attach to different IPs and then you should be able to have each have a seperate SSL certificate.
Windows Servers can be assigned lots of IP addresses, then depending on your network setup you could change the DNS records for your different domains to point to the different IP addresses. Remember DNS changes take a while to role through the network (depending on their time-to-live). So you need to have the domain you move hosted on multiple IP addresses until all clients have the new DNS records.
See the following
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722518.aspx
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/understanding-advanced-tcp-ip-settings-windows-2003.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/74097d64-d3d7-4b07-a1b7-0be86494ba97.mspx?mfr=true
Why?
How I assume you have things configured is serving both domains off the same port and the same IP address, and have IIS choose the different WebSite based on the host-header. The host-header as the name implies is part of the http headers sent to the server with the request, when using HTTPS this information is encrypted using the SSL certificate. So if your could have multiple certificates servered off the same port and IP address IIS would not know which certificate to decrepit the incoming request.
Wild Card Certificates
One way round this is if you have multiple sub-domains they can share one SSL certificate then you can use host-headers to choose which site the user is interested in
so if you had
a.example.com
b.example.com
c.example.com
You could get a certificate for
*.example.com
Then the websites for the subdomain could share one SSL certificate and the same IP address and port.