Installing certificate for the cpanel main domain?

[XGhozt]

I read somewhere that it only works with cnames or subdomains, etc.. but not the main domain? I ran into an issue where I had two separate cpanel accounts for "domain.com" and one for "sub.domain.com" -- I wasn't able to install a cert for "sub.domain.com" because it was picking up "www.sub.domain.com" instead.

A weird work around that worked was, I just opened the developer tools on my browser and added the "sub.domain.com" to the field and submitted it. It worked perfectly fine.

So why wasn't the domain listed there to begin with? Am I going to run into issues when it's up for renewal?

will-ashworth commented 7 years ago

That's correct, from what I've seen. The easiest thing you can do so that renewals are more likely to happen correctly...

Setup a CNAME record in DNS for www.sub.domain.com, and have it reference sub.domain.com. This way validation from LE's end can succeed.

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[will-ashworth]

That's correct, from what I've seen. The easiest thing you can do so that renewals are more likely to happen correctly...

Setup a CNAME record in DNS for www.sub.domain.com, and have it reference sub.domain.com. This way validation from LE's end can succeed.