[Zope] How to have Apache rewrite to multiple Zopes?

[Alec Mitchell]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 09:43 pm, Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> What you have done is not impossible - but it is the only possible
> option and most folks find it unacceptable. You have use the same
> certificate for all hosts and so all but one of them will pop up the
> name mis-match warning message. In a number of situations, that is
> unacceptable. For example, would you give your credit card # to a site
> that did not have its own SSL certificate?
>
I understand that.  I indicated in my post that the shared certificate was a 
problem with the setup, though I probably underplayed its significance.  For 
the specific sites involved it is not at all critical (the SSL is perhaps 
superfluous to begin with), and they are in use by a limited number of people 
who can easily be made aware of the certificate warning issue.  I was just 
responding to the above post, which stated that it such configurations were 
entirely impossible, not merely ill-advised.  That post was in turn a 
response to a post which claimed that it was possible as long as you were 
willing to share a certificate among multiple hosts, a point upon which we 
both agree and the above post disagreed.  The links in that post seem to bear 
out the claim that NameVirtualHost is entirely impossible under SSL with 
Apache 2.0 (according to the documentation, I've never tried).  I simply 
intended to point out that at least in earlier versions (still in widespread 
use) it is doable.  There are certainly instances where such a configuration 
can be useful, despite its imperfections.

Alec