do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

[Michael J. Kearney]

No, I've done that  before I could get what's called a pointer record or reverse DNS for my mail server ... Register a domain and setup the DNS server. If the ip is dynamic you have to regularly update your DNS server.  The forward zones will work.  If you use openssl to generate your own ssl certificates ... (./configure --enable-so --enable-ssl) They wont be recognized by the certificate authority.

eg: https://mail.nvita.org

try it.

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

#   General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
ServerName mail.nvita.org:443
ServerAdmin mkearney at nvita.org
UseCanonicalName On
ProxyVia Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /owa !
ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.3:99/owa/
ProxyPassReverse / http://mail.nvita.org:99/owa/
ErrorLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log"
TransferLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log"




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Subject: Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010/12/22 S Mathias <smathias1972 at yahoo.com>:
> http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054
>
> "# Set up SSL protection on your website."
>
> is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain?
>
> thank you
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> happy Christmas! :)
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mod_gnutls can do 'Server Name Indication' and mod_ssl with apache_2.2
should do it too
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34607
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=776281

But hoster may not use mod_gnutls or not recent version of apache, so
it may not support multiple ssl with single IP.
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