The QuickSSL Premium SSL certificate from Geotrust can now be used to secure both the www and the non-www part of a domain with just a single certificate.

NOTE: This has now changed. The QuickSSL Premium now automatically secures the www and non-www portion of the SSL domain. You do not need to follow the instructions any further.

In fact the certificate can secure the main domain and up to 3 sub-domains. Those of you with an understanding of SSL certificates will see that this is done by providing 3 SANs within the SSL certificate.

If that wasn't good news on it's own the even better news is that this does not cost any extra with ServerTastic.

But there is some bad news. To enable this on the certificate is a little bit fiddley. I will do my best to describe how to do it (we hope to make this much easier in the future).

Just one other point before we continue this can not be applied to certificates already issued but you can use this with any QuickSSL Premium invites you have not yet used.

When you order a QuickSSL Premium certificate from ServerTastic you will get an enrolment URL sent to you via email like the one below

Do not click on the URL. Instead copy and paste this into your browsers address bar. Then you must add &SAN=True onto the end of the URL as per the example below.

Hit enter and you will then be taken to the QuickSSL Premium enrolment screen. The second page of this process is where you would paste your CSR. But you should also see some additional options at the bottom of the page were you can enter up to 3 domains

Firstly you should completely ignore the Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 text. This is now redundant and we are trying to get this changed.

In the 3 boxes Domain 1, Domain 2 and Domain 3 you can enter the domains you want to secure with this certificate. They must however be part of the main domain.

Here are some examples

CSR: www. servertastic.com
Domain 1: servertastic.com
Domain 2: checkout.servertastic.com
Domain 3: support.servertastic.com

 

CSR: servertastic.com
Domain 1: www. servertastic.com
Domain 2: checkout.servertastic.com
Domain 3: support.servertastic.com

As you can see you can either include the www element of your domain in the CSR or as one of the extra domains.

The QuickSSL Premium certificate is available at ServerTastic from just $55.00 a year.

Be sure to leave your questions or comments below if you have any!

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