Certificate Question

If I were to purchase an SSL wildcard certificate (good for unlimited subdomains), wouldthat certificate get installed onmy e-mail and stats servers as well as my web server so that I can use https on those without a "certificate mismatch" error in my browser?

 

It will only be installed on the web server.


If you need to access webmail securely, I believe you can find the secure link in the Email Management page of the control panel.


If you have SmarterStats, you can access it securely by changing the URL to contain HTTPS.

Aristotle

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET

 

Yes, I realize that. But, I would like people who aren't so computer savvy to be able to reach their webmail securely through their own URL instead of having to remember a separate one. So they can just go to https://webmail.mydomain.com and have it come up without any certificate mismatch errors in IE. Doesn't seem like alot to ask for unless there are administration issues I'm not aware of.

 

Redirecting all traffic to webmail through SSL is not a common request, so it's something that you have to set up for yourself if you need it.

See this thread for more information.

 

I think I'm still not getting across what I'm talking about. Right now if I have the domain mydomain.com and I try to go to https://webmail.mydomain.com it'll go to the webmail interface and use SSL, but I'll get a certificte mismatch error because it's trying to use the cert issued to webmail.discountasp.net. However, I want my customer (who doesn't want to remember a second URL) to just be able to go to https://webmail.mydomain.com and not have to go to https://webmail.discountasp.net or be redirected there since they may be freaked out to be redirected away from their own domain. It seems like if there was a way to install my cert on the mail server, then there would be no mismatch error, right? Or do I have my understanding of the whole cert process all messed up?

 

This will not be possible, because the cert will have to be installed on the SmarterMail website. It can only have one certificate, and that is the DiscountASP one.

Aristotle

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET