Please let me know if this question is not appropriate for this forum.
This is the first system I'm configuring with SSL, and I am looking for
recommendations on how to do this. I've already configured apache and know
how to generate a CSR.
We basically have an old web site that is pretty old and static. I'll call
this site www.domain.com. We plan to make no changes to this site and take
it down when the new one is ready.
Meanwhile, we're bringing up a new site on a new machine that is going to be
running SSL. I'll call this machine store.domain.com. Once we get
store.domain.com fully functional, we'll bring down www.domain.com and make
store.domain.com available. The problem is that when I apply for a
certificate for the new machine, I have to give it a FQDN as the Command
Name. If I use www.domain.com, we can't do any testing before hand. If I use
store.domain.com, I can't rename the host to www.domain.com.
The only way around this, I think, it to leave store.domain.com as is, and
when we bring down www.domain.com, add a CNAME to the DNS record to map
www.domain.com to store.domain.com. Is this a correct way of doing this?
Will this result in any problems down the road.
Any suggestions and guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kory
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