Nginx - SSL Certs - Subdomain Questions

americanintel

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Haven't tried this before so I thought I might ask before I go burn $$ on a wildcard cert.

Here's the mission.

We have a new hosted PHP/MySQL application that I intend to use DA to admin. We are using Nginx instead of Apache.

Here's the config:

Server is app.ourdomain.net with 8 IP addresses allocated at this time. I created one Reseller package that is pretty much unlimited with the 8 IP addresses assigned to it, we are the only people admin/reselling the server.

I then created a Reseller on that package and made it demo.ourdomain.net and figured we'd host the demo there. Created a handful of user packages, each getting an IP. Setup the first one as dev.ourdomain.net. Everything resolves and works fine there.

Now I'm wanting to force SSL, every account will be https... no big deal there. So now to SSL certs and the real question.

If I bought a Wildcard and made it a server wide cert would it work since they are all on the same domain but different subdomains with assigned IP addresses one and all.

When we setup a new customer they will always be setup as theircompany.ourdomain.net or shortened to tc.ourdomain.net.

If they login to tc.ourdomain.net and tc.ourdomain.net:2222 I want it to be over https but accepted cleanly under the single Wildcard SSL that we installed for the server.

Thoughts?
 
Hello,

From what I've read I don't see anything wrong. To be more sure, you might want to use a free test SSL cert. Some companies offers upto 3-month limited SSL certs for testing purposes, so you might want to search them and give a try. As soon as you make sure the things are working fine you buy a cert. That's it.
 
You can get a free trial Certificate from RapidSSL here (freessl.com).

If it works, Certificates from any vendor should work.

Jeff
 
Thanks. I haven't had time to get back around to this. Will give it a whirl tonight. I think it will work but will report back.
 
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