Multiple public IP's - Multiple secure websites?

[JohanR]

Hi,

Currently I have a dedicated server with 5 public IP's in a data centre.
The OS is server2012 R2

How would I go about hosting multiple secure NTWS on this server?

I have worked through the docs for the MultiSiteHost, and I have gone through the docs for IIS for multiple sites on seprate IP's

As I understand things with my very limited knowledge:
MultiSiteHost seems to allow for one SSL site.
IIS does the hosting of the sites and as I am using NTWS this won't work.

Do I need something on the server to direct the IP traffic to seperate NTWS programs depending on the incoming IP?
Can I do this somehow with the MultiHost?

Not sure how to tackle this.

thanks in advance for any info or pointers to info,


Johan

[kevin plummer]

How would I go about hosting multiple secure NTWS on this server?

> I think you have 3 options if you want to server from the one port eg 443. If you can server from different ports then you don't need your 5 public IPs. Actually Option 2 and 3 below are the only options where you will need multiple public IP address's.

1) Use MultiSiteHost (it works with multiple ssl sites)
2) Use the bind to IP setting on the web host
3) Create multiple VM's and use your 5 ip address's to point to one of your 5 VM's

IIS does the hosting of the sites and as I am using NTWS this won't work.

> correct - make sure you have this switched off as well.

My suggestion is to use MultiHost.

[JohanR]

Hi Kevin

Thank you for that, I think bind to IP address is where I'll start checking on how to set this up.
The VM's was an idea as this will be for different entities and it might be an option to seperate them into VM's

thanks


Johan

[Bruce]

>> 1) Use MultiSiteHost (it works with multiple ssl sites)

only if the sites are in the same domain - ie
forums.capesoft.com
www.capesoft.com
would be ok

www.capesoft.com
www.johan.com
would not be ok.

cheers
Bruce

[JohanR]

Hi Bruce

So currently the multi site host will not work for more than one SSL site, even if there is some config work done on the server with the static public IP's

Am  also learning about how to configure the network adapter with multiple IP's etc...so all of this is a learning curve.

So it seems the only option would be to have multiple server exe's running and then somehow bind that IP to that server exe.


thanks

Johan

[Bruce]

Hi Johan,

>> So currently the multi site host will not work for more than one SSL [domain], even if there is some config work done on the server with the static public IP's

correct.

>> So it seems the only option would be to have multiple server exe's running and then somehow bind that IP to that server exe.

Correct.
The binding is done in the WebServer procedure, Security tab,
"Bind Server to only IP"

Cheers
Bruce