SSL is an abbreviation of Secure Sockets SSL Certification. Layer. It is a protocol developed by Netscape. It is helpful for securely transmitting documents through internet.

 SSL Certification.

One can encrypt data between server and the clients with a SSL certificate. SSL SSL Certification. certificate is useful on billing systems, contact forms and e-commerce systems.

 SSL Certification.

The domain name gets assigned with a dedicated IP address. A dedicated IP address is essential for SSL Certificate as the URL accesses by someone gets encrypted with the public key which gets loaded in the users browser then the data gets decrypted on the web server using one record for SSL Certificate. Apache cannot share one certificate for multiple URL`s unless the Certificate is a wildcard SSL Certificate designed to work on multiple sub-domains of a single unique domain. Single SSL certificate cannot work for different multiple domains. Nobody can decrypt your data or SSL secured data unless they have your private key.