Questions tagged [security-certificate]
Electronic document that proves ownership of a public key. E.g. for SSL connections.
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New SSL certificate is not propagated
I have installed a new SSL certificate on my server and removed the old one but when I open the website using new PC and new browsers, I still view the old certificate in the browser.
I have windows ...
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Why does a domain-validated certificate issued by certificate authority for example1.com works on example2.com?
Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of having the first domain verified by a certificate authority when the certificate also works on other domains?
How are they different from self-signed ...
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Why do SSL certificates expire?
Why do SSL certificates usually expire after a certain given period of time?Can't it really be a thing of once applied and verified, then it should be a lifetime venture?
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Upload a chain through PLESK where there are only fields for the certificate and the authority?
I have a free certificate bundle which include a root, intermediate, server and CA crt files. I am trying to use this 3rd-party certificate in a GoDaddy PLESK hosted solution and have the option to ...
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Let's Encrypt certificate renewal failure: “too many failed authorizations recently”
I am running a website on my Raspberry Pi with 2 different domain names.
Installing the certificate for https:// when it became necessary was no problem. But renewing it seems impossible.
I have ...
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Is it recommended to add SSL certificate protection to the domain's subdomains (webmail,webdisk,cpanel)?
I bought web hosting under FastComet and they have a free Let's Encrypt SSL service that comes with the package. There is an option to include the domain's subdomains (webmail,webdisk,cpanel) to ...
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Verify a root domain on Google search consol (or webmaster central) when http url is already verified
I am having a few issues uploading my SSL certificate on Google Cloud.
It says that "You are not an authorized owner of the domain for this certificate" while I have already validated the property ...
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Add SSL to a domain which is hosted from the same directory as another domain on nginx
I have a sub domain for eg subdomain.maindomainA.example which is pointing to subdomain.maindomainB.example [SSL enabled]. The A record of subdomain.maindomainA.com points to the IP address of ...
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Do I need cPanel's AutoSSL if I also enable Cloudflare's SSL?
All of the websites I manage use cPanel, which also offers free SSL certificates. However, some of these domains use Cloudflare for their DNS, and they also get their SSL certificates from Cloudflare ...
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What can I do when my Cloudflare SSL certificate isn't authorizing?
It's been over 24 hours since I activated SSL in the Crypto section of Cloudflare, but my Universal SSL Status still says "Authorizing Certificate".
When I visit my site, Chrome says that the site ...
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Firefox reports SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE with a GoDaddy certificate and the website doesn't work
My website is not working in Firefox.
Here is the info about drmohanskinandhaircentre.com security certificate which is issued by GoDaddy:
What should I do?
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How to setup SSL on the new platform when migrating?
I'm looking to move our current site from the current hosting platform to a new provider. The part I'm struggling with is setting up the SSL certificate on the new platform. I can't see how to do this ...
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Error parsing certificate request: x509: unsupported elliptic curve from Let's Encrypt
I'm trying to obtain an EC-based X509 certificate using secp256 from Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt is returning an error instead of issuing the certificate:
$ letsencrypt --manual --csr ~/cryptopp-com....
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Will premium DNS speed up TLS/SSL?
I'm trialing out CloudFlare (which I only want for speed optimisation). I'm guessing I should wait a bit longer to test the true benefits, due to propagation.
One thing I can't find out is if such ...
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Add HTTPS (SSL certificate) to users custom domain names on a website builder
I have a website builder where users can add their domain name, and I need some direction on how to get it set up with HTTPS, I presume through LetsEncrypt.
Example:
Without domain: djdemo.vibecast....
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Certificate rejected by some browsers on Android
I'm having an odd issue that some browsers (Brave) on my phone trust the SSL-certificate I installed:
while others do:
I am familiar with the issue that Android sometimes rejects SSL-certificates, ...
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How can I fix two conflicting SSL certificates? (One expired)
Background:
I recently inherited management of a web project and ran into an issue with an expired SSL certificate. The site is hosted on AWS with a wildcard certificate generated from ACM, which is ...
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Certificates in Multiple Servers (AWS Instances)
We have 1 WHM Licence (instance in AWS). Inside the WHM we create one account MYDOMAIN.EXAMPLE -this is the MAIN DOMAIN-.
Inside the DNS of the MAINDOMAIN.EXAMPLE we create a few subdomains example ...
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Does an SSL certificate targeted at users in China need to be generated by a Certificate Authority in China by law?
The company I work for is hosting a web page secured with login and password and working through SSL with a certificate generated in USA. This is already on production.
They want to expand the ...
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SSL Verification files can't be read
I have created an Asp.Net Razor site in Visual Studio 2017. Anyway I was given a series of steps by Winhost for getting free SSL certificate. I followed those steps using SSL for Free. I've used ...
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Do I need a certificate to redirect via CNAME?
I have abc.example.com that is being shut down and all data was sent via SSL.
I have xyz.example.com already live and pure SSL site. I am changing record (CNAME) for abc.example.com to point to xyz....
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How do I understand why https is broken on a site? [closed]
So, I'm visiting a random site, and Chrome reports it as "not secure," even though it's using https with a valid certificate. Just as a matter of self-education, I want to understand what they're ...
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How to transfer an SSL certificate from one cPanel account to another? Do I need to transfer it? I have WHM with the new account
I've moved a site to a new hosting account, and need to get SSL working again.
On the old hosting account, as I understand it, the hosting provider just issued free Let's Encrypt certificates and ...
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Wildcard certificate with certbot and DNS challenge
I am trying to obtain a wildcard certificate from Let's Encrypt for my web server.
Since I am using a "local" hoster, certbot has no DNS authenticator plugin for it. So I have to use the manual ...
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SAN SSL certificate vs Single Site SSL and SEO
Does having an SSL certificate issued for each subdomain rank the same as having one SAN SSL certificate grouping all of them?
Example:
First scenario:
example.com -> has it's own SSL certificate
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Auto check that HTTPS certificate has renewed successfully
Ive got a lets encrypt HTTPS certificate installed for a site that auto renews.
My concern is that it may fail the auto renew and visitors may be greeted with an expired certificate warning.
Whats ...
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I cannot do https redirection on my website on .htaccess
Am having a local classified website. I bought SSL for the domain but cannot put https redirect on htaccess since my developer wrote somerule on htaccess to get url for SEO. Can some help for the same....
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Google Consider HTTPs over HTTP - How to redirect https to http without losing traffic
I have not installed SSL nor enable on my website, however the hosting companies did it.
Now Google started crawling https pages over http.
I have uninstall the ssl form Hosting Cpanel today.
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Non-www to www redirect not working in Firefox; Works in Chrome with nginx server
I've configured my website to have https with www scheme. I opted to redirect all the traffic from non-www to www, at the time of setting up LetsEncrypt SSL certificate and it works absolutely fine on ...
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Installing a free world-compatible SSL certificate in WHM/Cpanel
It's been a while but here I am again.
I just found out today that users of chrome 69 or later will see a big "insecure" message for webpages beginning with http:// such as mine and even Bing's ...
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How to set up a reverse proxy on an SSL subdirectory from another server?
Setup is as follows:
Our agency's client's domain is https://www.example.com (with SSL certificate from Amazon)
They have NGINX severs, and manage their own hosting
They want us to build a few simple ...
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“DNS CAA No” from ssllabs.com; Cause of Android Error?
After five months of no problems nor errors with my Comodo certificate on a personal website suddenly, as of two or three days ago, I'm getting a meddlesome, "Certificate isn't from a trusted ...
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HTTPS - HTTP communication on the same server
There is a server. On the server is apache. Apache has certificates. On the apache is a website - client, thanks to certificates the client is accessible by https://example.com/~path. The client is ...
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Let's Encrypt validation under cPanel getting a 404 error after www redirect
I'm having some problems getting the SSL via Let's Encrypt working on my site. I installed the certificate via a one-click installer in my cpanel. It works on my cPanel, but on the actual site it ...
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What's the best time to install SSL certificate on a WordPress blog?
I have created a new WordPress blog and just added a post on it. I want to install SSL certificate on this blog.
What's the best practice to install SSL certificate? Is it before WordPress ...
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How to fix “expired certificate” errors when changing nameservers
Site used to be hosted at example.com.
Nameservers were set to example.com's nameservers (ns1.example.com, ns2.example.com).
Site was then moved to example1.com, but nameserver settings were kept.
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Should I submit my website sitemap to Google/Bing using HTTPS Urls?
I have a website without a google webmaster account connected to it.
I want to install an SSL certificate on it.
After doing that, What is the best practice in order to submit the site to google? ...
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SSL Labs Cipher Strength < 100%, why? How do I make it?
I am in a progress of trying (again) to get maximum (or almost maximum) score on SSL Labs with my site.
I currently do not understand, why it does not give me full Cipher strength score.
Now, it ...
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How can I install LetsEncrypt certificates on a Bluehost dedicated IP address through cPanel?
Looking for guidance to install a free Let's Encrypt SSL cert on shared hosting places like BlueHost or JustHost. (Not interested in procedure on other hosting places.)
I have a dedicated IP address. ...
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Receiving SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER when Attempting To Access Google Analytics [closed]
Whenever I attempt to access Google Analyics, I receive an "Insecure Connection" message.
In more detail:
analytics.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted ...
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HTTPS request connection timeout (NGINX)
I tried a lot by reading different answers on Stackoverflow and other forums but unable to identify the error, can someone please check the below configuration and tell me what could be wrong?
server ...
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How do I get and install an SSL certificate on a Bitnami image on Amazon EC2?
I need to get an SSL certificate installed on an Amazon AWS EC2 instance that runs the bitnami image. I watched this YouTube video on how to do it but during the video he creates the CSR and then ...
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nginx http to https redirect - just isn't working
I am running my own webserver with nginx on ubuntu 17.10. I have opened ports 80 and 443.
Trying to get the HTTP to HTTPS redirect working, but everthing i seem to have tried fails. i am still ...
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Get a Lets Encrypt SSL certificate through ZeroSSL for a .ovh.net subdomain
I'm trying to set up https connection in one of my API.
I normally make requests to my API through this address: http://vps******.ovh.net:8090
I'd like to be able to make HTTPS requests.
I use the ...
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How to avoid SSL warnings about certificate not for the current site when redirecting alternate domains?
I have multiple domains forward issue. Domains with plurals and singular e.g.:
example.com,
examples.com,
example.biz,
examples.biz
I forwarded all of them to https://examples.com and https://...
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Showing company name in address bar requires SSL EV certificate, or OV also OK?
I remember in the past I had to buy an SSL EV certificate (which are much more expensive than regular SSL certificates) to get the company name displaying next to the green lock in the address bar.
I ...
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Outlook 2016 says “The target principal name is incorrect” on my site's security certificate
I currently run a Plesk VPS, with 2 Domains hosted within.
Some time ago, I had installed the 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificate onto my Plesk VPS. Both domains, successfully displayed the 'https' ...
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What entry should be put into the Domain Name, when it comes to SSL Certificates for a Plesk VPS?
I am currently in the process of securing a VPS of mine, with the Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate.
Referring to the below image, was is required, when 'The domain name must resolve to your server'? ...
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What to do about certificates being distrusted by Google Chrome?
Recently Google Chrome started issuing a warning on the console which says:
The SSL certificate used to load resources from
https://www.example.com will be distrusted in M70. Once
distrusted, ...
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Changing CA for a website
As an AWS user I am currently thinking about breaking up with my current Certificate Authority in favor of AWS ACL due to ease of maintenance for the latter (just for the sake of accuracy).
What ...
