ssl certification

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    paulchristophermanagement · Member ·

    many people are telling me they are being redirected when they follow links to my site e.g

    paulchristophermanagement.com 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

    does this mean i can get rid of it or that i cant

    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 alerting you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine. You may also see this warning if you attempt to reach your blog (not your Dashboard) using “https” instead of “http” in your blog URL.

    (enabling https) will that take the warning away for public?

    thanx
    Rob

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    shawnajroberts · Member ·

    Hi there!

    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 alerting 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 from 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://paulchristophermanagement.com and not https://paulchristophermanagement.com

    You can read more about this here:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

    That page will also give you instructions on how to disable that pop-up on your browser.

    Let me know if you have further questions!

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