You can get certs for subdomains as long as the company signing the cert is willing to sign a cert for a subdomain. The process of self-signing an ssl cert for a subdomain isn't any different than for the main domain. They probably got you two as a courtesy, since the cert for example.com wouldn't be valid for www.example.com and vice versa.
David Landry On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Wade Preston Shearer <[email protected]> wrote: > I purchased an SSL cert through a hosting company for a client. Looking at > the cert in their admin panel, I see the following: > > 1 key for example.com > 1 key for www.example.com > 1 cert for example.com > 1 cert for www.example.com > 1 cert for UTN-USERFirst-Hardware > > > I have a few questions about this: > > 1. Why are there two keys and two certs (for the main domain and the www > subdomain)? My understanding was that you couldn't get certs for subdomains. > I only purchased one cert; did the hosting company just purchase two behind > the scenes as a courtesy so that both example.com and www.example.com would > work with https (their price was sufficient to have included two)? > > 2. What is "UTN-USERFirst-Hardware" and why is there a cert for that? > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
