[Techtalk] https-ssl cert-mod_rewrite advice

[Michelle Murrain]

As I recall, in order for https://www.sitename *and* https://sitename to
both work, you need a wildcard certificate (or two certs, one for bare
domain, one for www subdomain - wildcard will handle all subdomains.)

There might have been some changes since I last handled this, but that's
what I recall.

Peace,
Michelle


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> Hello good Techtalkers!
>
> I have a bit of a conundrum that surely you awesome peeps can help
> with. My work sites, to keep the overbearing Googles happy, redirect all
> http://www.sitename to http://sitename.
>
> There are two things I want to accomplish: have SSL available for
>  pages that need it, and when site visitors accidentally use an https://
>  link, to shut up the stupid paranoid browsers that freak out when SSL
>  certs are not exactly perfect and emit scary warnings.
>
> What's the best approach to do this? Get SSL certs for all domains and
> not worry about new mod_rewrite rules? We already have a UCC SSL cert
> for our five http://sitename domains.
>
> thanks!
>
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