Category: Learning

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Learning

Multidomain SSL Certificates

Context

As I relaunch my website and blog, I want to make it secure. But I host two different domains on this same site (with a host-based redirect), so I wanted to make sure I could secure both of them. My host’s support team told me I would need to use their “Certificate Signing Request” (CSR) to install an SSL cert but this requires a single common name for the domain name. My question was – how do I generate a CSR for multiple domains?

Search terms

csr for multidomain certificate

Helpful link

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9840/67/how-do-i-activate-a-multidomain-ssl-certificate

Outcome

According to this article, I can use my primary domain in the CSR and add additional domains (SANs) when activating the certificate.

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Learning

Introduction

When I Google stuff with Bing on my Brave browser, that is usually a moment of learning in my life, so I thought I would catalog those moments here.

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Context

What I was working on or thinking about before performing a search.

Search terms

What words I used in my search.

Helpful link

The link I chose that was most helpful.

Outcome

What I learned and how I applied it.

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Learning

Contact form on wordpress

Context

I am attempting to get the contact form working on this site, so I can feel comfortable launching it. For some reason when I test the form, it is showing “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.”

Search terms

wordpress email server

Helpful link

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-use-smtp-server-to-send-wordpress-emails/

Outcome

I installed WP Mail SMTP plugin and configured it with the mail server settings from my web hosting provider (winhost.com). I ended up looking also at https://blog.winhost.com/how-to-configure-wordpress-to-use-smtp-on-winhost/ which basically had the same instructions, except that it included specific details for winhost. I also realized that my email password was not very secure, so I generated a new one and updated it on both of my wordpress sites.