[Gllug] apache ssl

[Leigh Mason]

Tethys wrote:

>Leigh Mason writes:
>
>><VirtualHost singleIpAddress>
>>   ServerName www.virtualhost1.co.uk
>>   ProxyPass / http://backendserver/virtualhost1
>>   ProxyPassReverse / http://backendserver/virtualhost1
>></VirtualHost>
>>
>>Currently, a request for: http://www.virtualhost1/home.html  will be 
>>successfully retrieved from: backendserver/home.html But would it be 
>>possible to pass a request for https://www.virtualhost1/secure.html to
>>backendserver/secure.html?
>>
>
>Why are you trying to do this in Apache? Why not do it at the IP level?
>I.e., just route the required IP address directly to the backend server?
>Since you've specified https, you're not using name based virtual hosting[1],
>which would be the only reason you'd need Apache.
>
I am using name based virtual hosting, I only have one IP address. 
Sorry, I should have explained my
self properly in the first place.
I'm hosting a few sites, all with their own domain names. Most of the 
sites are served from the front end Linux box. But a few sites use asp 
and must be passed to the back end windows box running iis. The way I 
achieve this is by using the ReverseProxyPass directives in apache.

I understand that I can only have one signed certificate per IP address, 
and I need to use ssl for some
of the asp pages.

>
>Tet
>
>[1] I was reading somewhere that future versions of Apache will support
>    name based SSL virtual hosting. Impossible, you might think, but it
>    apparently involves initiating the connection in plain text, so you
>    get the headers, and then negotiating encryption once you know for
>    which virtual host it's destined.
>
This sounds like the very thing for me!


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