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Use different ports for each Web site

If you can't afford to have different IP addresses for each Web site you'll host on your Web server,

you'll have to use some tricks. While you can use host headers with normal sites, you can't use host

headers with an SSL-enabled site. (This limitation in explained in Microsoft Knowledge Base

article Q187504.)



Work around this issue by using different ports for each Web site. For the first site you would use

the default port 443 and do nothing else. Just install the certificate, enable SSL, and off you go. For

each additional Web site, you need to change the SSL port after assigning a certificate.



Here's how to change the SSL port:



Right-click the site and select Properties.

On the Web site tab, change the SSL from port 443 to another port.

Once you change the SSL to another port, your clients will have to use https://server:<port>, where

<port> is the new SSL port.



If you don't want clients to manually specify a different port in their requests, you could create a

redirection on the original Web site.

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