Redirect request from https domain to https subdomain with only one certificate

Posted by Sean K. on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Sean K.
Published on 2012-07-08T05:05:02Z Indexed on 2012/07/08 9:17 UTC
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I'm trying to redirect users to a subdomain in server2 if they make an https request to server1. I only have one certificate, and that's installed on server2.

So for instance, from (server1) https://www.example.com to (server2) https://ssl.example.com

My best guess is that I will need a certificate for https://www.example.com as the hostname is encrypted inside the HTTP header so my server won't know to redirect until it's decrypted. However, I'm curious if this is possible without two certificates?

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