Ubuntu – Best practices for placing SSL certificates for use in Apache 2

I've set this on on my servers by adjusting the /etc/apache2/ports.conf file as follows:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
NameVirtualHost *:443
    # SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported, therefore no
    # NameVirtualHost statement here
    NameVirtualHost *:443
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

You should then be able to use by editing /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.com (some code omitted to shorten the example):

<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName mysite1.com
     SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/localcerts/www.mysite1.com.crt
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/localcerts/www.mysite1.com.pem
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName mysite2.com
    SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/localcerts/www.mysite2.com.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/localcerts/www.mysite2.com.pem
</VirtualHost>

For as many vhosts as you like.

Edit: NEED A SECOND OPINION? GO HERE: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3244

You can generally purchase unified communications Extended Validation certs from quite a few vendors, ( so you can have 1 cert that suuports multiple domains ). Digicert is one example of a CA offering these. Verisign also offers extended validation certs that support multiple SANs but Verisign is very expensive. I'd say shop around. I don't think GoDaddy will let you get an EV cert with multiple names attached to it but others do.