On Sunday, 4 March 2018 21:07:41 GMT Stephen Wolff wrote:
> i don’t think you’ll be able to get another certificate for
> wimborne-modeltown.com. You might be able to get one for a subdomain or
> a wildcard (ie *.modeltown.com). You’re likely to need some way to
This will be the first certificate for wimborne-modeltown.com. I've suggested
that they will need to make the site secure soon anyway.
> verify that you ‘own’ the domain - which for letsencrypt would need
> to be either a DNS record of some sort under wimborne-modeltown.com or a
> file served somewhere under wimborne-modeltown.com (so you’d need to
> work with the contractor in some way)
Understood.
> which server? it could be used on the local network server for an https
> site - it doesn’t have to be on the webserver. a ‘certificate’
> will consist of 3 files (sometimes combined into one - depending on
> server config). You’d need to put the files into certain locations
> with certain permissions on the local webserver, and set up local DNS to
> point the sub-domain, but no, you wouldn’t need the certificate on the
> public webserver.
That's what I'm hoping to do.
> As Chrome is about to label all http sites insecure - maybe the person
> looking after the site will have to sort out a certificate - so will
> have one you could use on the local network?
See above.
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