SSL-Certificate by connection a domain to a wordpress.com-Site
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Hey there,
I got question concerning the SSL-encryption of a wordpress.com-Site when connecting a domain from another host that is not SSL-encrypted.
The following situation: A website was created on wordpress.com and is accessible via a domain at wordpress (let’s name it domain.wordpress.com). At another provider (IONOS) there is an own domain (domain.com), which was now connected to the wordpress site.
This worked without manually entering the name servers at IONOS, because IONOS offers the automatic configuration via a connection to WordPress (see here under ‘Alternatives to using name servers’ https://wordpress.com/support/domains/map-existing-domain/#alternatives-to-using-name-servers). That means, when I open the site, for example via domain.com/contact the page built on domain.wordpress.com/contact is shown – that’s great, exactly what should happen. So far so good.
The problem now is the SSL certificate. WordPress.com uses a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate by default, but domain.com is not SSL encrypted.
At wordpress.com it says concerning how to install a SSL-encryption: ‘You don’t need to! We automatically install SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt on all WordPress.com sites.’ (https://wordpress.com/support/https-ssl/).
It then says for mapped pages: ‘For mapped domains, SSL certificates are only added after you map your domain to WordPress.com.’ (which already happened as mentioned above, but an SSL certificate hasn’t been added).
On the german version of this site it even goes further by saying ‘Mapped domains will not receive SSL certificates until you add our name servers to your domain.’
But exactly this was not done by the above mentioned automated configuration by IONOS. Is there any other way to add the SSL encryption to the mapped domain?
The problem by adding the name servers manually could be that e-mails that are received under this domain will no longer be received over the IONOS Mail Services, which is why it would be great not to change them….
Does anyone know more aboute this problem?
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You’d need a WordPress.com paid plan to enable you to correctly map/transfer a custom domain and make it the primary domain rather than the .wordpress.com subdomain. Then the custom domain would have SSL provided by WordPress.com.
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