Ssl certificate should be added in more than one web site in IIS 7.0

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I have purchased one SSL certificate which should run on domain and subdomain.
E.g. *.example.com.

I want this SSL certificate to run in domain website and subdomain website. I have two different Website in IIS 7.0

  1. example.com
  2. xyz.example.com

Currently the SSL certificate is assigned to xyz.example.com and it is working very well.

Now I want this certificate to work in example.com website as well. I have added the certificate and it has taken default port for https i.g. 443. Now when I have start the website, it gives me below message:

This Web site cannot be started. Another Web site may be using the same port.

Now, I have changed the default port of https i.g. 443 of example.com to 445. and tried to start the website and it gives me below message:

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)

Can you please help me in this.

Thanks in advanced

Pranav

Best Answer

IIS does not support Name based virtual hosts with SSL. Basically you need a separate socket (IP+PORT) for each site.

Port 445 is almost certainly in use for by the Windows File and Print Sharing Services (SMB).

In the future please consider using a command like netstat -a -n and verify that nothing is listening on a port before you try to assign it to something else.

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