Someone knowledgeable about SSL certificates?

[pingo]

I use domain.com as the host name on all servers in a trust relationship. domain.com is created with a username on mars.domain.com - now I need to install a ssl certificate on another server apollo.domain.com, but I am required to add the username of the commercial domain.com in WHM. This doesn't, however, work because domain.com only has a username at mars.domain.com (master), not on apollo.domain.com which is a slave server. So what am I going to do to get that certificate I just bought through ev1servers installed on apollo.domain.com for shared ssl? Does anybody here know how to deal with this problem? I tried root as username but it wouldn't accept it.

Thanks
John

[easyhoster1]

You need to purchase a wildcard cert *domain name.

This will allow you to have unlimited sub-domains under the same cert...Expensive though, I have three wildcards and they cost $800.00 ea for two years.

Once installed, you then need to add the sub-domain as its own account in whm and assign its own IP address to it, then you will need to edit and add the SSL define to the httpd.conf
for each sub-domain.

[pingo]

I don't know why that would be necessary? The server crashed and we lost the shared certificate on apollo.domain.com - it worked perfectly well before on apollo.domain.com. Now we need to install a new certificate. I have never bought such a certificate before and shared ssl has worked perfectly well on all servers using domain.com as host name on all servers. I don't know how the techs did it but it has never been a problem I would just like to learn for my self how they did it.

John

[easyhoster1]

Yes, but was it for sub-domains or shared users?

apollo.domain.com
apollo2.domain.com
apollo3.domain.com

Or www.domain.com and it was shared for the
username

apollo.domain.com/~usr
apollo.domain.com/~usr1
apollo.domain.com/~usr2

There is only two types of ssl certificates that I know of.

One, a none wildcard www.domain.com
Or a wildcard *domain.com

You cannot share a ssl for mars.domain.com unless its a wildcard cert, as it has its own sub-domain name and the certificate is for apollo.

Thanks

[pingo]

No, it was for users apollo.domain.com/~alotofusers

John