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Add a port parameter for new virtual hosts

renwald

Add a port parameter for new virtual hosts
« on: September 17, 2003, 06:00:40 AM »
Would it add value to the SME server line to add the capability to specify which port for Apache to listen to when adding virtual hosts?  I'd like to have unique secure ecommerce sites which require SSL in each ibay for each virtual host.  SSL handshaking occurs before Apache sees the name based hostname, so unique certificates for each virtual host appear to be impossible.  However, the Apache doc's indicate that a workaround for this situation is to specify a different port number for each unique host, which is why I'm making this suggestion.  If my guess is correct, this may provide a way for SME users to host multiple SECURE sites on their machines.  If I'm wrong, well I'm still somewhat new to Linux/Apache, et. al....