Question : IIS: How to define multiple web sites, each with their own domain and SSL?

We currently have a web site defined on our current IIS 5.0 web server. It's the default web site, with IP unassigned. This existing web site also uses SSL on port 443. We'll call this www.domain1.com.

We wish to add another website to the web server (let's call it www.domain2.com) and this will also have its own SSL certificate. We are using the Host Header records to define this second site on port 80, so as not to conflict with our existing domain1.com site.

The question is: How do we define the SSL portion for domain2.com? We have a port 444 available to us and wish to use that port for domain2.com's SSL. When we try to edit the host header record for domain2, the entry box for the "Multiple SSL Identities..." is grayed out and we can't add it there. We are placing 444 in the main SSL property page for domain2.com's site, but when we attempt to visit the secure site https://www.domain2.com, we get the security warning (because we haven't installed the SSL certificate yet for domain2.com) and then upon pressing continue, we are routed to domain1.com's homepage.

We're not sure what's going on and don't know how to proceed. What do we need to do in order to be able to visit the new site in secure mode? We know we need to generate a CSR and go through the installation of a new certificate, but we want to make sure we first configure the site correctly so that when we generate our CSR it is generated based on the proper settings.

What next?

Thanks experts!

Answer : IIS: How to define multiple web sites, each with their own domain and SSL?

Hi,

this article should help you out...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/596b9108-b1a7-494d-885d-f8941b07554c.mspx?mfr=true

Mike
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