{"id":1776,"date":"2015-06-03T02:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellbach.us\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2015-06-03T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:24:16","slug":"iis-7-7-5-hosting-multiple-ssl-sites-on-one-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellbach.us\/blog\/tech\/iis-7-7-5-hosting-multiple-ssl-sites-on-one-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"IIS 7 (7.5): Hosting Multiple SSL Sites On One IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1881,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.methodicmadness.com\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/iis-7-75-hosting-multiple-ssl-on-one-ip.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250615031104\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.methodicmadness.com\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/iis-7-75-hosting-multiple-ssl-on-one-ip.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-19 00:08:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 13:17:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 13:17:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Since I continually find myself Googling this information whenever I add a new site on our wildcard cert, I figured I&#8217;d document it here.<\/p>\n<h2>Adding a New Binding:<\/h2>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A wild card SSL certificate (of the form *.domain.com). I assume the cert is already installed on your server.<\/li>\n<li>An IP you wish to use on multiple IIS sites.<\/li>\n<li>Two or more IIS sites with no SSL binding (I&#8217;ll touch on changing a binding at the end).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>With these in place, adding an SSL cert is quite simple:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In an elevated command prompt navigate to<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>C:\\Windows\\System32\\inetsrv<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enter the following command (replace {SITENAME}, {IP}, and {HOSTHEADER} with the appropriate values).<code>appcmd set site \/site.name:{SITENAME} \/+bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='{IP}:443:{HOSTHEADER}']<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Check the selected cert in IIS via the bindings window. You can change the cert here, but you cannot change the host header.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<h2>Changing an Existing Binding:<\/h2>\n<p>Changing a binding is similar to the adding binding with a few alterations to the command<\/p>\n<p><code>appcmd set site \/site.name:{SITENAME} \/bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='{IP}:443:{HOSTHEADER}'].bindingInformation:{NEWIP}:443:{NEWHOSTHEADER}<\/code><\/p>\n<p><em>comments and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.methodicmadness.com\/2010\/04\/iis-7-75-hosting-multiple-ssl-on-one-ip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Methodic Madness<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>kblood: you can have multiple ip&#8217;s for the same machie. just add as many as you want and add an entry in your hosts file. it&#8217;s found in windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc folde.<br \/>\nthen do the binding as such and you can have as many ssl sites as you have ip&#8217;s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I continually find myself Googling this information whenever I add a new site on our wildcard cert, I figured I&#8217;d document it here. Adding a New Binding: Requirements: A wild card SSL certificate (of the form *.domain.com). 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