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10.4: How to set up a wildcard DNS
Dunno if OS X Server 10.4.3 has changed this, but as of 10.4.2, one couldn't use a wildcard cert (*.domain.com) with a passphrase, I was shocked to discover.
10.4: How to set up a wildcard DNS
This is not something that Apple, or apache, or your SSL certificate provider are going to be able to fix. The way the HTTPS protocol works is that the name embedded in the CN field of the certificate must exactly match the hostname that the browser is asking for, or the browser will probably complain about the certificate possibly being forged. Some browsers are okay with wildcard names in the CN field, some browsers are not. You can look at a certificate's x509 data (you will find the CN field in the "Subject" line) with a command like this: openssl x509 -text -noout -in _____.crt
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