Questions tagged [wildcard-subdomain]
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Let's Encrypt certificate to cover both wildcard subdomains and root-domain
I'm running a server under example.com domain and I have sub-domains like:
a.example.com
b.example.com
I'm creating certificate from Let's Encrypt with zerossl online tools and I have an issue. When I generate the certificate using wildcards as…

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AWS ELB endpoint in Godaddy
I have my domain name regsitered in Godaddy. I have my servers in AWS. We use a public ELB to redirect traffic to our webservers inside a VPC in a public subnet. I want to point one of my subdomain name to the elastic loadbalancer endpoint and I…

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Redirect all subdomains to main domain with HTTPS without a wildcard cert (nginx)
I have a domain name with a main site and a few vhosts. I want all sites (main and vhosts) to only be accessible through HTTPS (using HSTS), and I want non-existing subdomains to be redirected to the main site.
To summarize what I…

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Apache2 with wildcard subdomains of the form sub.*.domain.tld
I currently have Apache2 configured to host wildcarded subdomains of the form *.domains.tld, where the * is unique for each client we have.
Each client has an 'admin' page that they can log into, currently at client.domain.tld/admin, that we would…

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Can a DNS wildcard only be the leftmost part of a record?
I'm using TinyDNS, and have successfully used wildcard records of the form:
+*.:
(+ for A records.)
Can I also use:
+development.*.:
?
My intention is for all subdomains to have their development website point to our dev…

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is wildcard ssl insecure?
Is there anything inherently more insecure about using a wildcard SSL certificate over a regular SSL certificate?
We are looking to implement a subdomained web application (a la FreshBooks and BaseCamp, where users pick a subdomain), and one of our…

iopener
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ServerName not working in Apache2 and Ubuntu
Setting up a dev LAMP server and I wish to allow dynamic subdomains, aka ted.servername.com, bob.servername.com.
Here's my sites-active file
# Admin Email, Server Name, Aliases
ServerAdmin not@real.com
ServerName …

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Dynamic Error and Custom logs in apache 2 using wildcard subdomains
I'm trying to make a wildcard VirtualHost conf file for apache2, and I'm not sure how to handle the ErrorLog and CustomLog settings to put the logs where I want them to go. As you can see in the second VirtualHost, I have the logs in a logs folder…

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Using Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificate on Multiple Servers
I have a series of subdomains that are a part of a root domain I manage. I have set up certbot on one of these domains: x.example.com and it is successfully using the certificate and renewing it automagically.
I now want to create a new subdomain y…

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Azure Application Gateway limitations - wildcard SSL cert
We have ~60 client apps, each with its own subdomain URL in a common domain, i.e. client1.domainname.com, client2.domainname.com... - all covered by a single wildcard SSL cert *.domainname.com. Currently hosted on-prem with a pair of LBs and 2…

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Redirect wildcard subdomain to same subdomain on different domain
I have a domain with dynamic subdomains. The domain, unfortunately, has changed. As such I need to redirect
*.domain1.com
to
*.domain2.com
while keeping the subdomains the same. I have looked through the mod_alias and mod_rewrite documentation…

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Possible reasons for occasionally inaccessible domains
I'm experiencing symptoms similar to those of the other question. That is, peoples are complaining about a domain name being inaccessible. And then, it suddenly starts working after a while. But I doubt it's because of unreliable DNS servers. They…

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Can wildcard and single domain certificate coexist for the same domain
Because we have externally hosted applications by vendors under specific sub-domains (vendor1.domain.org, vendor2.domain.org...), we would like to keep single certificates for these sub-domains while having all internally hosted applications in our…

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SSL wildcard certificates and "www" sub-subdomains
I've got a wildcard SSL certificate for *.example.com.
I'm using Nginx, and redirecting all traffic for HTTP to HTTPS, and also rewriting the URLs to remove a www subdomain (if there is one).
So it has,
http://subdomain.example.com --->…

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Automatic wildcard subdomains on Apache
Currently I have several virtual hosts set up for individual subdomains. It would be a lot easier if I could tell Apache to automatically find the folder using a wildcard. For example, hello.domain.com would use the /var/www/hello directory as its…

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