I have a current site with an SSL certificate for the "www.mysite.com" of a domain name, but not for the subdomain site "blog.mysite.com".
Both sites are loaded on one instance of Umbraco and use the Hostnames functionality built into Umbraco to separate.
I am now looking to secure the blog site, and am stuck with the best approach. I see there being two options:
Move the blog under the www, so it becomes www.mysite.com/blog/ - this is not as nice from a marketing perspective and is not the preferred option.
Buy a certificate for "blog.mysite.com" (cost is not an issue) the technical setup of this has me stumped. I have setup the sub-domain as a virtual subdomain with the web hosting provider and then let Umbraco do the rest.
As I see it, if I buy a "blog" certificate, I would need to setup the blog subdomain as an actual subdomain and then maintain 2 copies of Umbraco, and most probably with separate databases.
I thought that maybe 2 sites pointing to the same database might work, but then how would you move between them both - I'd assume Umbraco would get in the way (no disrespect meant) and cause issues with the SSL's, etc.
Buying a wildcard SSL isn't an option due to cost.
Advice re SSL's with www... and blog... on one instance of Umbraco
Hi there
I have a current site with an SSL certificate for the "www.mysite.com" of a domain name, but not for the subdomain site "blog.mysite.com".
Both sites are loaded on one instance of Umbraco and use the Hostnames functionality built into Umbraco to separate.
I am now looking to secure the blog site, and am stuck with the best approach. I see there being two options:
Move the blog under the www, so it becomes www.mysite.com/blog/ - this is not as nice from a marketing perspective and is not the preferred option.
Buy a certificate for "blog.mysite.com" (cost is not an issue) the technical setup of this has me stumped. I have setup the sub-domain as a virtual subdomain with the web hosting provider and then let Umbraco do the rest.
As I see it, if I buy a "blog" certificate, I would need to setup the blog subdomain as an actual subdomain and then maintain 2 copies of Umbraco, and most probably with separate databases.
I thought that maybe 2 sites pointing to the same database might work, but then how would you move between them both - I'd assume Umbraco would get in the way (no disrespect meant) and cause issues with the SSL's, etc.
Buying a wildcard SSL isn't an option due to cost.
Can anyone provide thoughts / feedback.
Thanks
Nigel
If you are not bound to using a specific cert authority, then go for whatever fit you for free: https://letsencrypt.org/
Read about your options on windows here: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/feb/22/using-lets-encrypt-with-iis-on-windows
In most cases I fire up this: http://certify.webprofusion.com/
Wondering if anyone has managed to get letsencrypt working with Umbraco as a service. So far I've failed.
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