How do I obtain an HTTPS certificate?
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How do I obtain an HTTPS certificate?
We updated the domain of our blog from wallstreetmainstreetlaw.wordpress.com to wallstreetmainstreetlaw.com
When people “follow” our blog and receive the kickback email to confirm confirmation, the links to other pages on our site show up with a security warning due to the HTTPS. My IT department says that I need an HTTPS certificate. If so, how do I obtain one? If not, how do I fix this problem before the website gets promoted?
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That’s actually quite normal. Rather, it’s a misguided warning more than anything, and only you will see it when logged in.
When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.
When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.
Most security systems like this should have a way to add a permanent exception so you will never see the warning again in this instance.
Please let us know if you have any more questions!
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Hi! That’s great, thanks so much for getting back to me. While that did clear up a lot of my questions, I do, however, still have one more issue.
The links in the “subscription confirmation email” following “Great content you might have missed on Wall Street Main Street Law:”
are still https for anyone that clicks on them giving that security warning.Is there a way to remove the https from those links?
Thanks again,
Mallory -
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