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brendan
brendan

Reputation: 31

OpenSSL Wildcard Certificate and hostname Certificate

What CNAME do I need to generate a wildcard certificate and a hostname certificate in one.

Eg. I can generate *.blah.com and also blah.com, but *.blah.com doesn't match blah.com.

I want to know how I can generate a request to match both.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 996

Answers (1)

doptimusprime
doptimusprime

Reputation: 9395

Since, your certificate is *.blah.com, it will not match to blah.com. It will only match to single level sub-domain of blah.com. Not event to a.b.blah.com.

To match certificate both, you can use subjectAltName extension and mention blah.com in its DNS here. Now, it will also match to blah.com.

To see the effect of subjectAltName, open https://kotak.com and https://www.kotak.com. Browser will open both without any complaint. This is because, in subjectAltName, it has also mentioned kotak.com.

Upvotes: 3

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