{"id":493,"date":"2016-09-03T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=493"},"modified":"2017-02-11T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:59:49","slug":"what-is-wildcard-ssl-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/what-is-wildcard-ssl-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wildcard SSL Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between a <em>Wildcard SSL<\/em> Certificate and any other certificates like a Standard SSL Certificate is that a Standard Certificate issued to a single Fully Qualified Domain Name (e.g., www.yourdomain.com) and its can only to secure the exact domain which the ssl certificate issued for.<\/p>\n<p>A Wildcard SSL Certificate is issued to a \u201cCommon Name\u201d of *.yourdomain.com and a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of *.yourdomain.com. The wildcard allows the certificate to be used on an unlimited number of sub-domains across an unlimited number of servers. Entrust Wildcard SSL Certificates can also secure Multiple Wildcard SANs.<\/p>\n<p>The SAN ensures that the SSL works with or without a subdomain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*.yourdomain.com<\/li>\n<li>*.yourdomain.net<\/li>\n<li>*.yourdomain.com<\/li>\n<li>*.yourdomaintest.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So Instead of getting separate certificates for sub domains, you can use a single certificate for all main domains and sub domains and save your money.<\/p>\n<h2>How Does a Wildcard SSL Certificate Work?<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple &#8211;\u00a0 Certificate issued with a &#8220;Common Name&#8221; of *.yourdomain.com and a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of yourdomain.com. The * (wildcard) allows the Certificate to be used on any sub-domains belonging to the yourdomain.com domain name and the SAN ensures <em>SSL<\/em> works even without a sub-domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main difference between a Wildcard SSL Certificate and any other certificates like a Standard SSL Certificate is that a Standard Certificate issued to a single Fully Qualified Domain Name (e.g., www.yourdomain.com) and its can only to secure the exact domain which the ssl certificate issued for. A Wildcard SSL Certificate is issued to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}