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melvin@e-defix.nl's avatar

Cannot install a Wildcard SSL on DigitalOcean server

I'm trying to install a wildcard SSL certificate by Let's Encrypt in Laravel Forge.

In the SSL tab in Forge I typed for domains: *.example.nl. The following error is returned when I obtain the certficate:

Unable to determine base domain for example.com using names [u'example.nl', u'nl']

How can I solve this issue?

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aurawindsurfing's avatar

Request cert for example.nl and not for *.example.nl

Another possibility would be to just start using cloudflare ;-) after that there is no going back ;-)

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