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> Also, why do they have "You also need to have a dedicated IP address" in the requirements? Because a web server that hosts multiple secure websites needs a w
by dangrossman 12y ago
> Also, why do they have "You also need to have a dedicated IP address" in the requirements?
Because a web server that hosts multiple secure websites needs a way to know which of the certificates to use to encrypt a new incoming connection. The way we disambiguate that is to give each website a different IP address. In short, it's about the way SSL works, not anything to do with validation.
- ikusalic 12y agoThanks for the explanation. To my understanding, that's only necessary when I actually use the certificate, not as the part of certificate validation. I assumed the validation would happen with me setting some DNS record with particular value they can validate or something similar.