SSL, host headers, one site

Hello, could somebody help me out with my problem?

I have a dedicated server. Hosting one website. In IIS I have created
two websites named www.domainname.com and domainname.com. Two
different IPs, different host headers, same ports. I assigned a SSL
certificate for each of them accordingly. There are two certificates
www.domainname.com and domainname.com (I cannot get a wildcard
certificate). The problem I am having is that there is a certificate
mismatch if I access the site by domainname.com. The certificate shows
up as www.domainname.com. I rechecked if the certificate was correct
for each website. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to go
about this? Could anybody advise me on how to solve this?

IIS
215.215.215.215:80:www.domainname.com
215.215.215.216:80:domainname.com

I changed SSL host headers in IIS metabase:
443:www.domainname.com
443:domainname.com

Re: SSL, host headers, one site

Hmm, from your description you have the correct configuation and a good idea
how this should be set up.

A couple things to check:

- what does the properties of each site say in the GUI? (You shouldn't need
to mess with the metabase to do what you are doing, why did you do that?)

- Is either of the sites, or the default site have "All unassigned" active?
If yes, either change it or just stop that site.

- Does "443" appear on the main page (NOT the properties window) of the host
headers area for "SSL port"?

- Do both sites work OK with port 80? (Http?) From an outside machine, do
both sites ping to the proper IPs? (IP "a" and IP "b")

- Do you have a router or firewall doing address translation?

- Go into the "Security" tab, then in the Certificate assignment, you should
be able to view and re-assign what cert to use in there. Does it have the
correct one? (If yes, try just re-assigning it)

I might try a reboot too...

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news:1192608866.256124.190740@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hello, could somebody help me out with my problem?
>
> I have a dedicated server. Hosting one website. In IIS I have created
> two websites named www.domainname.com and domainname.com. Two
> different IPs, different host headers, same ports. I assigned a SSL
> certificate for each of them accordingly. There are two certificates
> www.domainname.com and domainname.com (I cannot get a wildcard
> certificate). The problem I am having is that there is a certificate
> mismatch if I access the site by domainname.com. The certificate shows
> up as www.domainname.com. I rechecked if the certificate was correct
> for each website. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to go
> about this? Could anybody advise me on how to solve this?
>
> IIS
> 215.215.215.215:80:www.domainname.com
> 215.215.215.216:80:domainname.com
>
> I changed SSL host headers in IIS metabase:
> 443:www.domainname.com
> 443:domainname.com
>

Re: SSL, host headers, one site

I modified the SSL host headers because of one microsoft page. But I
probably misunderstood it. It said to modifify SSL host header in
order to use host headers with SSL. I removed the two websites and
started from the begining. Added one first, then second, restarted
IIS, added certificates, and restarted IIS. This seems to be working.
I guess I did something wrong the last time. Thanks for the tips.

On Oct 17, 11:21 am, ".._.." <.....@yourmom.mil> wrote:
> Hmm, from your description you have the correct configuation and a good idea
> how this should be set up.
>
> A couple things to check:
>
> - what does the properties of each site say in the GUI? (You shouldn't need
> to mess with the metabase to do what you are doing, why did you do that?)
>
> - Is either of the sites, or the default site have "All unassigned" active?
> If yes, either change it or just stop that site.
>
> - Does "443" appear on the main page (NOT the properties window) of the host
> headers area for "SSL port"?
>
> - Do both sites work OK with port 80? (Http?) From an outside machine, do
> both sites ping to the proper IPs? (IP "a" and IP "b")
>
> - Do you have a router or firewall doing address translation?
>
> - Go into the "Security" tab, then in the Certificate assignment, you should
> be able to view and re-assign what cert to use in there. Does it have the
> correct one? (If yes, try just re-assigning it)
>
> I might try a reboot too...
>
> wrote in message
>
> news:1192608866.256124.190740@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com.. .
>
> > Hello, could somebody help me out with my problem?
>
> > I have a dedicated server. Hosting one website. In IIS I have created
> > two websites namedwww.domainname.comand domainname.com. Two
> > different IPs, different host headers, same ports. I assigned a SSL
> > certificate for each of them accordingly. There are two certificates
> >www.domainname.comand domainname.com (I cannot get a wildcard
> > certificate). The problem I am having is that there is a certificate
> > mismatch if I access the site by domainname.com. The certificate shows
> > up aswww.domainname.com. I rechecked if the certificate was correct
> > for each website. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to go
> > about this? Could anybody advise me on how to solve this?
>
> > IIS
> > 215.215.215.215:80:www.domainname.com
> > 215.215.215.216:80:domainname.com
>
> > I changed SSL host headers in IIS metabase:
> > 443:www.domainname.com
> > 443:domainname.com