Re: Self signed cert for multiple websites

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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Self signed cert for multiple websites
As long as the "domain" remains the same the same cert should work. Once
that changes you will need a new cert.


On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Keith Smith <>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've configured a VM using VirtualBox and it is running CentOS 6.6.
>
> To create the self signed cert I followed 3 steps:
>
> 1) mkdir /etc/httpd/ssl
>
> 2) cd /etc/httpd/ssl
>
> 3) openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 4000 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout
> /etc/httpd/ssl/name-of-my-test-site.key -out
> /etc/httpd/ssl/name-of-my-test-site.crt
>
> I've tested the cert and it works.
>
> Now I want to add more test sites to my VM.
>
> I've done some research and am not finding any information about how to
> configure the self signed cert(s) for multiple sites. From reading the
> docs it appears that I create one cert for the box and it will be used by
> all the sites on my box (test/dev VM). Is this true or do I need to create
> a cert specific for each virtual host? If I need to create a cert for each
> virtual host, how do I do so?
>
> Thank you so much for all your help!!
>
> --
> Keith Smith
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