Use Correct SSL Certificate for Custom Domain

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  getscalus · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 7:31 pm

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  I am having an issue with my website where when I try to visit the HTTPS version of my site, the browser gives a warning because the certificate is not signed for the correct domain, *.wordpress.com and wordpress.com instead of my own domain. Specific error is SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

  I want to use my own certificate for blog.scalus.com so that this does not happen. This is important since a lot of browsers will start defaulting to showing HTTP as insecure.

  How do I go about setting up my own certificate?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 10:22 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m sorry, but 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.

  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:// and not https://.

  You can read more about this here.