Hey everyone! I'm feeling a bit lost regarding SSL wildcard certificates and how they operate. We're using a wildcard certificate for our primary domain *.example.com and we also have a subdomain sub.example.com. However, since we don't have SSL set up on the subdomain, I attempted to redirect it through cPanel. Instead of connecting properly, it's showing a different URL that doesn't belong to us.
We're using Cloudflare as our DNS provider and GoDaddy for the subdomain. Here's what I've tried so far:
1. Changed the DNS setting in Cloudflare to flexible encryption, which worked but is not secure.
2. Checked the file manager, but I didn't find anything pointing to the incorrect domain.
3. Utilized the forwarding feature in GoDaddy.
Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated!
4 Answers
Can you clarify what exactly you mean by 'we don’t have an SSL in our subdomain'? And, it’s crucial to know if you mean *.example.com or actually *example.com. If you can outline your exact goals and architecture, we can help more effectively. It's best to avoid the irrelevant details like cPanel redirects for now.
Just to clarify a couple of things: you're mentioning the wildcard domain *.example.com and not *example.com*, right? Those are two very different things. It's worth confirming you actually have an SSL certificate for *.example.com and that it’s intended for the subdomain sub.example.com. It sounds like you may have modified your DNS entries erroneously, which wouldn’t be the right approach for your setup.
I should also mention that using wildcard SSL certificates isn't typically recommended for production environments.
A wildcard cert lets you secure multiple subdomains with a single certificate. The * in the cert substitutes any subdomain name. So instead of getting individual certs for every subdomain like site1.example.com, site2.example.com, etc., you can just use one certificate for *.example.com. Just keep in mind, this only applies to one subdomain level. If you need to secure something like stub1.site1.example.com, you'd have to get a separate wildcard for *.site1.example.com. It's essential that your wildcard cert is installed on the server that's handling the web requests.
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