problem with security certificate
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When I go to my blog by typing the URL, a warning pops up that there may be a problem with the security certificate (doesn’t match). I am using a domain name I bought at Godaddy. How can I fix this?
Alanna
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Hi Alanna,
When you connect to your Dashboard or blog 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 go to your own domain with https:// 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.
To prevent your readers running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http://alternativecapital.ca/ and not https://alternativecapital.ca/
You can read more about this here:
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Great, problem solved. I also read the HTTPS info in the wordpress support section, which explained it further.
Thanks!
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