Today I’m going to try to get SSL working on this site. This is tricky because:
- I don’t have an SSL certificate for confousedlot.com
- I don’t want to purchase a certificate for confousedlot.com
However, I do have a wildcard certificate for *.faidley.org and the two domains are hosted on the same host.
Try 1
I was hoping I could provide word press with an alternative url for the secure portion of the site (user log in and admin pages). However, word press does not seem to provide this functionality.
Try 2
The confused lot page lives in a sub directory of faidley.org’s public html so I should be able to navigate it to through that structure. In theory http://www.faidley.org/confusedlot.com/ should also be the home page of confusedlot.com. However, word press must be doing some magic since it reports a 404 when I access that page. At some point
Edit: Word press decided to delete the second half of my post. So the rest was missing the first time I posted this. I actual did figure out what happened and will post about it soon.
Try 2.5
Well I don’t really need the whole of the site to be SSL enable but I really would like the back end. So lets try the faidley.org path for that. http://www.faidley.org/confusedlot.com/wp-admin/ That appears to work, however, wordpress actually does a redirect on that back to confusedlot.com so this will not work either.
Keep trying
I will have to keep trying on this one. I’m pretty sure I could move the whole site to a default faidley.org location and use a redirect on confusedlot but then all users looking in the address bar would see a faidley.org address. I would also like to investigate to see if there are any plug-in that do what I need. While my particular need is a little unusual it should be the same as someone trying to use their hosts SSL certificate with their hosted domain.
’til next time, keep trying