SSL & HTTPS problems

[clockwise]

Hi.

I issued my ssl certificate to
secure.mydomain.com

i installed the certificate and restarted apache. all worked well.

but https://secure.mydomain.com/ does not exist! it says error 404 ( page not found )

however, https://mydomain.com/ exists. but then my certificate says its only valid for secure.mydomain.com. ( u know it.. right )

so.. whats up with that? how do fix this? i think its something to do with apache.

 

[Spook]

I've noticed here that creating a sub-domain does not also create a default index.html file.. Hence the 404 error.

My experience with certificates is that if your certificate is for secure.domain.com then that is all it will work for unless you specify the others.

IE: I use a CA Cert server certificate.

I had to specifically create it for example.com, mail.example.com, www.example.com, etc. It will canvas folders of the [sub-]domain that it's for but aside from that you have to specifically create the certificate to apply to subs.

While not probably exactly applicable to all other certificate vendors on how to create, there are some useful articles (look under the misc item on the right) on making CA Cert server certificates at the URL above. Might help clarify what I am trying to explain.