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Posted by BNT102, 05-15-2014, 08:45 AM Hello, I am new to the hosting world and have to provide a feedback on this subject We need to host a secure website on a platform (A) To reach this website, people need to connect to a URL called xxx.com/aaa, however, xxx.com is hosted on another platform (B) which will redirect the trafic to platform A My question is where should there be a SSL certificate, on platform A or on platform B, and if on B, can it be different than the one installed for xxx.com? Thanks in advance,
Posted by Srv24x7, 05-15-2014, 09:33 AM Hi, SSL should be installed on the server where the web files are hosted from in your case it is Platform A. There are couple of things I would like to point out to you: xxx.com/aaa will search for folder inside the main directory. You can only have SSL installed on main domain or a subdomain, but not to a folder like the one you want xxx.com/aaa. It would be better if you create a subdomain and like aaa.xxx.com on Platform B and create main domain aaa.xxx.com on Platform A and point the A record of subdomain to platform A, so all the request will go to platform A and have SSL installed on platform A, so you can browse it like https://aaa.xxx.com.
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