moving an SSL

[sabre]

I currently host a couple sites with a SSL certificate installed. If I move these sites to my new reseller account, what will happen to the SSLs? Will I be able to move them too?

Thank you!

[GatorJustin]

Do you own the certificate?

[sabre]

Yes, the one I'm most concerned about, I just renewed. It is a QuickSSL from GeoTrust.
Thanks for the quick reply!

[bagel50]

Old thread, I know. But I just came across it... what does happen in this case, where you own a certificate, say one of the ones that you could buy from here, and the IP address of your site changes to say a dedicated server here or another hostgator server?

Olly

[Stef]

An SSL Certificate is issued to a domain name and not an IP address. The IP address doesn't matter as long as the domain name for which your SSL certificate has been issued does not change.

Stef.

[bagel50]

mm. I'm wondering then why there is a requirement for Resellers who buy an SSL certificate to have a dedicated IP? I'm thinking - perhaps because there can only be one SSL cert per IP? If so, how can it not be linked to IP addresses at all? It still confuses me.

Olly

[Stef]

The certificate is bound to a domainname, but the webserver links the certificate to the IP address. On a shared server each website using SSL must have a unique IP to ensure that the webserver knows which domain the SSL session should be for.

Stef.