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gen_Eric
Asked: 2013-09-07 07:32:19 +0800 CST

Wildcard SSL not working for multiple subdomains

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I have a wildcard SSL for my website, but I'm getting a strange error in my web browser(s).

You attempted to reach app.dev.mysite.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.mysite.com.

(This is what Chrome tells me is going on)

I don't understand this error. I thought wildcard SSLs meant that it would work on any subdomain of my site? How the heck does app.dev.mysite.com not match *.mysite.com?

Oddly enough, app.mysite.com works just fine with this SSL. What is going on here? Is there an apache setting for this?

P.S. My domain/SSL is through GoDaddy.

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You would need another ssl certificate for *.dev.mysite.com per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2818.txt

    Section 3.1

    Matching is performed using the matching rules specified by
    [RFC2459]. If more than one identity of a given type is present in
    the certificate (e.g., more than one dNSName name, a match in any one of the set is considered acceptable.) Names may contain the wildcard
    character * which is considered to match any single domain name
    component or component fragment. E.g., .a.com matches foo.a.com but
    not bar.foo.a.com. f    .com matches foo.com but not bar.com.

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