Hi I want to purchase a RapidSSL wildcard certificate but have a question about the common name. I want the main website and any subdomains to be secure: https://www.mysite.co.uk https://sub1.mysite.co.uk https://sub2.mysite.co.uk When generating the CSR what common name do I use? Just "www.mysite.co.uk" and the fact that I purchase a RapidSSL will mean the above examples urls will be secure? I've look at the following link but it's not 100% and I don't want to make a mistake! http://support.Winhost.com/KB/a775/ssl-common-names.aspx thanks in advance. dan
This means that: https://www.mysite.co.uk will be secured if you use *.HostingAccountDomain.com as the command name. https://sub1.mysite.co.uk will be secured if you use *.HostingAccountDomain.com as the command name. https://sub2.mysite.co.uk will be secured if you use *.HostingAccountDomain.com as the command name. But if you try to use https://mysite.co.uk it will cause "Common Name Doesn't Match" browser warning ---------------- If you use www.mysite.co.uk as the command name. Only www.mysite.co.uk will be secured. https://AnythingElse.MySite.co.uk will cause "Common Name Doesn't Match" browser warning
