I am pretty new with the domain configuration part. I want to know that can I generate SSL only for my subdomain I didn't want to add the root domain with CLOUDFLARE because my root domain already has SSL certificate. Is it possible to do that? I have purchased my domain from the GODADDY. I will add the generated SSL certificate to IIS.
Please help me out !!
Edit: I don't want to add my root domain to CLOUDFLARE because if I will do it I have to change my NAMESERVER for the same and my root domain already has SSL.
I believe what you're looking for is the CNAME setup on Cloudflare. This is the alternative method of Name Server setup. However, this setup requires a Business plan. With CNAME setup, you can have just a certain subdomains to be used with Cloudflare. With proxy turned on the subdomain, you'd get the usual Universal SSL certification from Cloudflare.
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I have a website for my podcast built with Python / Django that is hosted on Heroku: https://dinpodcast.herokuapp.com/
I have a custom domain parked on GoDaddy, dinpodcast.com, that has a www CNAME directing to my heroku application. This works just fine: https://www.dinpoddcast.com
I wanted dinpodcast.com to redirect to the www website, so I have the following domain forwarding set up on Godaddy:
This also works great, for the most part. Now, when I enter http://dinpodcast.com, or just dinpodcast.com, both will redirect to https://www.dinpodcast.com.
Here's the problem. When I enter the naked domain WITH HTTPS, so when I enter https://dinpodcast.com into a browser's address bar, I get the following response:
Here's what I THINK is happening. My SSL certificate is provided by Heroku under their Automated Certificate Management program. So, I assume that since I don't have an SSL certificate with GoDaddy, it's timing out trying to find one before it can redirect to my www subdomain. Would this be correct? If so, is there any way around this WITHOUT buying an SSL certificate with GoDaddy? If that's not what's happening, then what is and how do I fix it?
When you create an ssl certificate in your domain do you include your root domain? Tried using this tool in your root domain and it seems that there is no ssl certificate. However the subdomain https://dinpodcast.herokuapp.com/ has one. I suggest putting an ssl certificate in all subdomain and root domain that you are using.
I also checked the root domain’s IP address using this tool and checked port 443 using another tool and apparently the port is closed. Double check your firewall and make sure 443 is open.
Im using hostgator as my host.They do not provide free ssl certificate.So im using cloudflare free ssl certificate for my site.SSL certificate working everywhere except Cpanel.
I tried manually adding ssl through cpanel option.But not really working!Is there any way i can add it there?
Or it will be really good if my cpnael url cpanel.site.com won't just show up to that address.
If you want to use the CloudFlare SSL certificate then there is no need to add that SSL certificate to yoru cpanel nor to your site. Read the cloudflare documentation in order to see how to create and use Page Rules and their SSL certificate. cPanel has nothing to do with it. CF works just fine with cPanel/WHM and pretty much with any other related hosting panel. Your site can be http only in cPnel and then you do the HTTPS redirection from Clouflare using their Flexible SSL and page rules
cpanel.yourdomain.com ssl is related to server side. If your host allow autossl with Let's Encrypt (for example) then it will install ssl for all your necessary subdomains like webmail, cpanel, mail, www etc. If you are installing ssl manually, then you cannot install it for cpanel subdomain. However if you want to use cpanel securely and have enabled ssl with yourdomain.com the you can use it:
https://yourdomain.com:2083
I have domain www.xyz.com with dedicated IP,SSL for www.xyz.com is already installed and working fine.
now through plesk panel i am able to create 10 sub domains.
I have created one sub domain named subdomain.xyz.com which is pointing to totaly different server.
I want to add SSL certificate for subdomain.xyz.com.
where i have to add SSL certificate, on the the server that sub domain is pointing or i can add SSL for subdomain.xyz.com from xyz.com plesk panel.
the subdomain is pointing to solaris server
You will need to install the SSL certificate on the actual server that is responding to your HTTPS requests (meaning, the one the subdomain points to). However, keep in mind that if you have a regular SSL certificate, then the certificate would have to be issued to the specific subdomain. For example, a regular SSL certificate for example.com does not validate against sub.example.com.
As an alternative, you can purchase a wildcard SSL certificate for your domain that will cover the new subdomain and any others you add later. More info on that here: https://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.htm
I have my domain CNAME point to myapp-mynamespace.rhcloud.com however it throws this certificate error:
Doing rhc alias add proxy proxy.mynamespace.com would do the trick.
However, I just want to point arbitrary domain CNAME (like ww2 of xyz.com, abc.com or somedomain.com) to myapp-mynamespace.rhcloud.com
How do I get around this ssl issue, is it possible that when I point ww2 CNAME of xyz.com to my openshift app (myapp-mynamespace.rhcloud.com) it will not do https or ssl thing--just plain http.
You don't want a CNAME record, you want a web redirection, else the domain name will remain the one that points to rhcloud.com and the certificate will still be invalid for your web clients.
If you want to use SSL with your custom domain on OpenShift then you will need to upgrade to the Bronze or Silver plan and purchase an SSL certificate and install it for your alias.
Scenario: Suppose www.test.com is a domain that exists and I want to handle requests for widgets.test.com on my webserver. I work with their administrator and adjust their DNS record to point widgets.test.com to an IP address on my webserver.
Question: If I want to handle https requests for that subdomain, do I purchase the SSL cert for widgets.test.com and install on my webserver? Or, does a cert have to be purchased for the top level domain and installed on the primary webserver?
It doesn't have to be purchased for the main domain, you can purchase an SSL cert for a specific subdomain. SSL certs are keyed to the exact domain that you specify, so if you purchase one for "https://*.mysite.com" that's a different cert than for "https://mysite.com".
If you want to get an SSL certificate that would cover both, you might want to look into purchasing something like a Wildcard SSL certificate.