Adding SSL to an alias A record for existing site

Submitted by rjrsinc on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 15:29 Pro Licensee

Forgive me if there is something already online describing the following, but I was unable to locate anything specific. I hope I explain it properly.

We have a client with a domain njar.com that also needs an SSL connection. The client would like to use secure.njar.com for the HTTPS connection, but needs it to point to their existing njar.com site. So, if you were to type https://secure.njar.com, it would point to the existing site for http://njar.com. So in the end, https://secure.njar.com and http://njar.com would be the same site. I hope I explained that ok.

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 16:54

Howdy -- it sounds like what you would need to do is add secure.njar.com as an alias to njar.com.

Then, give njar.com it's own private IP address.

Once you do that, you'll be able to go into Edit Virtual Server -> Enabled Features, and enable the SSL Website feature.

At that point, you'll be able to go into Server Configuration -> Manage SSL Certificates to make an SSL cert for secure.njar.com.

Submitted by rjrsinc on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 12:21 Pro Licensee

Thank you for the detailed information. Very helpful. To keep it clean on our end, we ended up creating a virtual sub-server under the njar.com called secure.njar.com with it's own private IP and then added the SSL. It will betreated as its own site. First time through adding a cert on the server through VM.