SSL Certificate for website with existing Squarespace shop on its own Certificate.

[spreggo]

My client has a Wordpress website on GoDaddy hosting. They also have a Squarespace shop, hosted by Squarespace, which exists on a subdomain called 'shop.' The shop portion has it's own SSL Certificate provided through Squarespace.

The client would like to also purchase a certificate for the main website (to alleviate customer concerns).

Will purchasing a standard certificate interfere with the certificate for the shop subdomain?

Thanks for your help!

[MrVapor · Accepted solution]

@spreggo 

No, the SSL on the primary domain will not affect any sub-domains unless it's a Wildcard SSL.You should be fine putting one on the primary domain.

[MrVapor · Accepted solution]

@spreggo 

No, the SSL on the primary domain will not affect any sub-domains unless it's a Wildcard SSL.You should be fine putting one on the primary domain.

[dc352 · Accepted solution]

The first answer is correct - purchasing multiple certificates for various subdomains will not cause any trouble. When users visit your client's website, their web browsers will receive a certificate at the beginning of the session.

Only this certificate is checked against the visited domain name. What matters is that your client's main website will have installed a certificate that correctly matches the its domain name. 

Websites serving large numbers of visitors will have multiple servers, each of them can have installed its own certificate. This is a common situation.

The only thing you have to ensure is that the new certificate will match the domain name of you client's webserver where it is installed 🙂

Dan

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I've worked around (not only) SSL security for over 20 years in enterprises and startups. 

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