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  • Help with enabling SNI on RHEL 5.9 (Tikanga), please...

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    Hello:
    A web developer customer of ours requested the following:
    "We'd like to request that SNI be enabled on our WordPress servers so that
    they can use both wildcard security certificates:
    Reference:
    https://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-certificates-using-sni.htm
    "
    SNI requires:
    1). OpenSSL v0.9.8j
    2). Apache v2.2.12

    I am providing the commands I used and the results of those commands, further below, to identify the environment, in order to see if we can enable SNI, and if so, what are the steps (as being a newbie to this stuff).

    I did find the following but not quite sure:
    URL: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/28044
    Information from that web page:
    "
    SNI is supported in Apache 2.2.12 or later using mod_ssl (http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI)
    This is supported in RHEL 6 (httpd-2.2.15-5.el6) but not in RHEL 5 (httpd-2.2.3.el5) - https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=422047
    "
    Thank you!

    ************ Commands and environment results ************
    1). Identify the version of Red Hat OS:
    "cat /etc/redhat-release", which results:
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9 (Tikanga)

    2). Identify the version of OpenSSL on server - resource "https://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#intro-version":
    "openssl version", which results:
    OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008

    3). Identify the version of Apache (httpd) running on the server:
    "/etc/init.d/httpd fullstatus", which results:
    Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at localhost

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