Re: Multiple Secure Sites

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 00:16:00 GMT

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:25:11 -0800, "abing"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a Win2k Advanced member server on a company
>intranet. I am administering 3 websites on the server
>with 1 ip address and I have users inside and outside of a
>firewall on the domain I am on. I have the sites
>seperated using host header names. However so users
>outside of the firewall could gain access to the sites I
>got SSL Certificates for all three sites issued from a
>group within the company I work for. It is my
>understanding that for SSL I could use port numbers to
>direct users to a specific site. For example :
>https://myfirstwebsite.com:2443
>However this does not work for users outside of the
>firewall. Inside of the firewall it works perfectly.Only
>the default website (it is the first one I got a SSL
>certificate for) can be seen by users outside of the
>firewall by typing https://myfirstwebsite.com. The
>firewall people tell me that using the port numbers should
>work. Is there something I am missing or not setting up
>properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Are people specifying the port numbers on the URL? Have you checked
the firewall logs? Is the firewall translating the addresses? Do the
end users have personal firewalls blocking the ports?

FWIW, it's much smarter to use separate IP addresses.

Jeff



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