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I currently have two webservers behind a load balancer that are running my websites. I'm considering buying an SSL certificate for one of my websites and converting it to https. What mechanics to I need to considerer as far as IP addresses and load balancing go?

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While I don't have personal experience I have done research in the past for other customers and what I found is that it depends on the load balancer you use. Sometimes you can get away with installing just the one certification on the load balancer itself since thats the first to communicate. – bybe♦ Mar 11 at 19:10
I'll have to see what my hosting company support then, thanks. – Stephen Ostermiller♦ Mar 11 at 20:11

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You can use nginx as a load balancer and configurate it to correctly handle the server certificates just as normally would happen.

All the configurations are explained in http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-setup-nginx-ssl-proxy/ Instead of using the self-signed certificates, a purchased one can be used.

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