Ruby Forum NGINX > implementing SNI SSL ?

Posted by Ed Wg (ewildgoose)
on 17.06.2008 10:11
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Hi, to recap on a previous thread - is nginx currently able to handle
SNI based ssl virtual hosts (assuming latest 0.98 openssl)?

My host only allows a small number of IPs (8) and I have a bunch of
currently unencrypted services (due to lack of free IPs) which might
benefit from upgrading to SSL where it's supported , ie Vista IE7 /
Firefox, etc (currently > 50% of my visitors)

Cheers

Ed W
Posted by Igor Sysoev (Guest)
on 17.06.2008 10:25
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:57:56AM +0100, Ed W wrote:

> Hi, to recap on a previous thread - is nginx currently able to handle 
> SNI based ssl virtual hosts (assuming latest 0.98 openssl)?
> 
> My host only allows a small number of IPs (8) and I have a bunch of 
> currently unencrypted services (due to lack of free IPs) which might 
> benefit from upgrading to SSL where it's supported , ie Vista IE7 / 
> Firefox, etc (currently > 50% of my visitors)

nginx supports SNI since 0.5.23, it was tested against development
OpenSSL 0.9.9 year ago. OpenSSL SNI support had been merged to 0.9.8f,
however I did not test it: it might be changed while merging.
Also, note that SNI in OpenSSL 0.9.8 is not built by default.
Posted by Ed Wg (ewildgoose)
on 17.06.2008 11:10
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> nginx supports SNI since 0.5.23, it was tested against development
> OpenSSL 0.9.9 year ago. OpenSSL SNI support had been merged to 0.9.8f,
> however I did not test it: it might be changed while merging.
> Also, note that SNI in OpenSSL 0.9.8 is not built by default.
>
>   

How should the config files be layed out to pick this up?  Do I just
setup a normal vhost type config with normal SSL directives on each and
it should just work..?

Cheers

Ed W


P.S.  This is quite exciting if it works...!
Posted by Igor Sysoev (Guest)
on 17.06.2008 11:15
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:57:31AM +0100, Ed W wrote:

> >nginx supports SNI since 0.5.23, it was tested against development
> >OpenSSL 0.9.9 year ago. OpenSSL SNI support had been merged to 0.9.8f,
> >however I did not test it: it might be changed while merging.
> >Also, note that SNI in OpenSSL 0.9.8 is not built by default.
> >
> 
> How should the config files be layed out to pick this up?  Do I just 
> setup a normal vhost type config with normal SSL directives on each and 
> it should just work..?

Yes.