SSL issue in my logs

[cclayton]

I have installed my Geotrust Basic SSL Certificate on my server and all appears to be fine. Except when I go into my Error Logs I can see the following message occassionaly:

 

RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `www.domain.com' does NOT match server name!?

 

What does this mean and what is the impact? Anyone able to help?

 

Thanks, Chris

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

I have installed my Geotrust Basic SSL Certificate on my server and all appears to be fine. Except when I go into my Error Logs I can see the following message occassionaly:

 

RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `www.domain.com' does NOT match server name!?

 

What does this mean and what is the impact? Anyone able to help?

 

Thanks, Chris

That usually means that you obtained the certificate for 'domain.com' and you are accessing your site as 'www.domain.com'

 

Or, you obtained the certificate for 'www.domain.com' and in your configure.php file you set the https server to 'domain.com'

[MrPhil]

If your SSL certificate is for domain.com, use URL rewriting in your .htaccess file to change www.domain.com to domain.com. If it's for www.domain.com, rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com. Of course, your configure.php domain name settings should be consistent one way or the other, and match the certificate. Most sites rewrite to one way or the other (to match the SSL certificate) and do 301 redirections to persuade visitors to use the right form. If you're not using an SSL certificate, or have one with (extra cost) "wild card" capability (*domain.com), it doesn't matter whether URLs are given as domain.com or www.domain.com, except as a matter of neatness.