Hello everyone,
Part of our website has secured access with an SSL certificate. The problem we are running into is that the certificate is for www.domainname.com, so when they go to domainname.com (without the www. in front), the users are getting a "This connection is untrusted" warning, because the url doesn't match the certificate.
I found one site that said to make a change to the apache conf file, which I have done. The change that I made is adding: <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80> ServerName domainname.com Redirect permanent / http://www.domainname.com/ </VirtualHost>
This works great to redirect the users to http://www.domainname.com when they go to http://domainname.com.
The problem I am running into is if they go to https://domainname.com (straight to the secure site), I am not able to find a solution that will redirect them to https://www.domainname.com, so that the ssl certificate matches and they won't get the "This connection is untrusted" warning.
I tried using the same thing as above, but changing the port number to 443, and the http to https on the redirect line, but that actually breaks the site, and only displays an error: Secure Connection Failed (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
Is there something obvious that I am missing? Is there a better way to ensure that everyone will always end up with the www in the url, so the certificate always matches?
Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.