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Re: Macos-x-server Digest, Vol 4, Issue 285

A customer would like to purchase a single SSL certificate (to save  

money and administration hassles) that will secure all their  

subdomains.  In general I would recommend a wildcard cert for this,  

except they have 3 servers that need the encryption, each providing  

different services (web, mail, etc.) for their subdomains.


My understanding is that a single wildcard certificate will only work  

on one box.


Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?


A wildcard certificate can work on more then one box and to accomplish that you will have to copy the private key and certificate to the different servers.

However, since wildcard certificates are more expensive and require a license for each server you want to install it on, they only make economical sense if you need to run SSL with many subdomains.

In your case, where you only need to run SSL for 3 domains, its far cheaper to buy single SSL certificates and to keep the hassle down you could purchase them with a lifetime of for example 3 years.

Kind Regards
Pascal Geuns
QualitySSL

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