1) Correct. Consider it a gift (unless they charged you double). A certificate is only good for one name. A sub-domain (third level) is a completely separate name from the main (second level) domain.
2) The UTN cert is probably an intermediate SSL certificate. Many SSL providers are issuing these recently since the standard encryption level has be raised and these intermediate certificates have not made their way into the standard browsers yet. Jonathan On 19 Oct 2010, at 19:30, David Landry wrote: > You can get certs for subdomains as long as the company signing the > cert is willing to sign a cert for a subdomain. The process of > self-signing an ssl cert for a subdomain isn't any different than for > the main domain. They probably got you two as a courtesy, since the > cert for example.com wouldn't be valid for www.example.com and vice > versa. > > David Landry > > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Wade Preston Shearer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I purchased an SSL cert through a hosting company for a client. Looking at >> the cert in their admin panel, I see the following: >> >> 1 key for example.com >> 1 key for www.example.com >> 1 cert for example.com >> 1 cert for www.example.com >> 1 cert for UTN-USERFirst-Hardware >> >> >> I have a few questions about this: >> >> 1. Why are there two keys and two certs (for the main domain and the www >> subdomain)? My understanding was that you couldn't get certs for subdomains. >> I only purchased one cert; did the hosting company just purchase two behind >> the scenes as a courtesy so that both example.com and www.example.com would >> work with https (their price was sufficient to have included two)? >> >> 2. What is "UTN-USERFirst-Hardware" and why is there a cert for that? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> UPHPU mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >> > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
