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  antiqueapothecarysblog · Member · Apr 16, 2013 at 1:53 pm

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  Dear Sir,
  I have set up the following website: herbsandnaturalremedies.wordpress.com and then bought through WordPress the domain herbsandnaturalremedies.org and mapped it to the domain to the blog. I tried to access my blog today, but received the following message:

  [ This Connection is Untrusted
  You have asked Firefox to connect securely to http://www.herbsandnaturalremedies.org, but we can’t confirm that your connection is secure.
  Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site’s identity can’t be verified.
  If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn’t continue.

  http://www.herbsandnaturalremedies.org uses an invalid security certificate.

  The certificate is only valid for the following names:
  *.wordpress.com , wordpress.com
  (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) ]

  Can you please confirm what I need to do to confirm the certificate for the website?
  Please deal with this on an urgent basis.
  I look forward to hearing from you.
  Elena

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  amightywp · Member · Apr 16, 2013 at 9:41 pm

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  Hi there,

  WordPress.com provides SSL (https) encryption for any part of the back end (ie; the Dashboard, etc), however your main website is not able to be (nor should it be) protected by an SSL. SSL protection can interfere with the normal flow of traffic and should be reserved for traffic which needs to be encrypted, such as private data.