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HAProxy Won't Manage Multiple Wildcard SSL-Enabled Sites

Well, it was worth a shot. I spent some time at work over lunch trying to get HAProxy set up in such a way that we could have a wildcard SSL certificate on several Amazon EC2 instances, answering to different domains, and let HAProxy route the traffic accordingly. Unfortunately, SSL certificates still appear to require separate IP addresses per host that you’re securing. And since we can’t assign multiple Elastic IP addresses to our HAProxy instance at Amazon, I’m at a bit of a loss for how to run a software proxy server to manage multiple secured domains.

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