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jwbensley
Asked: 2012-10-12 04:55:46 +0800 CST

Pound Proxy with multiple SSL Certificates

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After reading on the Pound website that SSL does not support virtual host names, this in fact seems quite strait forward and obvious to me now. I have a pound load-balancer I wish to terminate SSL connections with. If a web server behind it runs multiple sites based on host name, can I configure pound to use multiple SSL certificates for these different hosts.

The only way to do this I can think of, is to assign another IP to the load balancer for each site that wants to use SSL, and configure a certificate for that IP & port combination for a specific site.

Is any one doing this, would this work?

UPDATE

Ideally, if anyone can share a config example that would be the best solution so I can read about it. Thank you.

ssl-certificate

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Looks like I was being too eager and not doing enough research before posting here. As Pound supports SSL SNI (for SSLv3), I can simply use multiple "Cert" statements to specify multiple certificate files and Pound will select the appropriate one for the incomming request.

    [If a request comes into Pound over SSL for a domain that I am not hosting and thusly don't have a certificate for, Pound (for me at least) is just using the first cert in the list which causes the browser to show an SSL error].

    SNI is supported by most modern browsers. In the last quarter of 2012, I don't think there too many IE 5 & 6 users for example sill around ;)

    This is sample basic config that works for me;

    ListenHTTPS
    Address my.public.facing.ip
    Port    443
    Cert    "/etc/ssl/certs/www.sslsite1.com.pem"
    Cert    "/etc/ssl/certs/www.sslsite2.com.pem"

    Service
        BackEnd
            Address 192.168.0.10 # A web server IP
            Port    80
        End
    End
End
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  2. I have Pound that serves several different SSL websites, just use separate ListenHTTPS for each different site that's all.

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