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Split site onto 2 servers - Cert. Issues

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by tink56

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Currently:
Web server inhouse hosts main site and home banking site within main site. Verisign certificate for www.mycreditunion.com is on home banking log in page.

Planned:
Move main site to ISP hosted site. Keep home banking inhouse. Hyperlink the two sites. I know I need two Verisign certificates, one for each server.

I can move the V Cert off the inhouse and put it on the hosted site because the cert is for www.mycreditunion.com and that is where the site will be.

What do I do with the home banking server? Buy another domain name? Can I get buy with an IP address? Verisign has not been helpful in getting this resolved.

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by shelleydoll

Realistically speaking, you'd have to have a second host name for the separate site, unless you go by IP address as you stated above. You theoretically can install a cert by IP, but this isn't recommended for a few reasons - you have to bind it to an IP address meaning it would have to be hard coded in links, you can't move the server unless you move the IP with it.

What you should do is just set up a hostname for the second box, and attach a cert to that. For example, the site you're moving is www.mycreditunion.com, so make the inhouse box secure.mycreditunion.com or even www2.mycreditunion.com (although www2 usually connotes a load balanced server, but doesn't have to). You can use the DNS configuration for mycreditunion.com to specify different IPs for each host.

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