I purchased a Godaddy SSL cert for $15 today and spent a lot of time tinkering with getting different parent portals to use the same ssl cert and I was able to get it working but I am not sure what I did that made it work but this is what I think did it (domains mentioned here are fictional)

I got a cert for secure.domain1.com

domain1.com existed before as a parent portal

created a parent portal called domain2.com. Created a page in it and copied its full url. In the url I replaced 'domain2.com' with 'secure.domain1.com'. Went to domain2.com site setting and entered the new full url as the SSL url for the site.

Did the same thing for domain3.com.

I tested both pages on a different and the pages opened without any messages and the lock was displayed.

I got a few messages about the cert belongs to another domain. I kept playing with the http aliases and ssl urls and it works now.

I will have to test all this again and test if this solution works only for a single page in each portal. Also test if ssl url can be truncated to secure.domain1.com/xx where xx is page name.

Perseverance pays off.

I don't have SSL turned on anymore.  I'm re-doing some stuff 'cause us "computer nerds" cannot help but screw with stuff haha.

Anyhow I honestly dont' know the SSL status of any of my sites right now.   None of those three sites need SSL at the moment, and should be displaying a page not found.  Anyhow if you do need me to set up a sample again let me know and I will...I do have SSL certs good for all those addresses.  I'm basically working on DNN5.0.0 versions of all those sites right now :->

Josh Martin