I an about to purchase a new cert from thawte but I want to know if should be Desired Secure URL: https://certifydev.com/ or Desired Secure URL: https://www.certifydev.com/ ? What do you think?

Personally I'd use secure.domain.tld, since that allows you to use DNS if you ever want to split your https traffic onto a separate server.

Of the two, go for the one without the www. in front of it.

Greg Moore

I have not done this before.

If I go without www I assume when I type https://www.certifydev.com the browser will not prompt me a warning right? Will it goes the same goes for anything.certifydev.com ?

Your Certificate must match your domain exactly unless you purchase a wildcard cert.

You cannot purchase a cert for domain.com and have that apply to www.domain.com or xyz.domain.com.

In addition, each subdomain you want to apply your certs to must have their own IP address. This is a limitation of the SSL specification.

-t

Originally posted by thewitt
In addition, each subdomain you want to apply your certs to must have their own IP address. This is a limitation of the SSL specification.

I know what you mean, and you know what you mean, but it might be a bit unclear to someone else; to clarift: Each SSL certificate must be on its own IP address, but there's nothing stopping you from using those addresses for other non-https stuff.

Originally posted by cperciva
I know what you mean, and you know what you mean, but it might be a bit unclear to someone else; to clarift: Each SSL certificate must be on its own IP address, but there's nothing stopping you from using those addresses for other non-https stuff.
It did sound funny - thanks for spelling it out :).

-t