Issue Lets Encrypt for www2 domain

[toomanylogins]

I'm trying to create a staging server for our website using the www2 prefix to the domain abc,com. So my public DNS I have www pointing to our public server which has a let's encrypt certificate and working okay. www2 points to our in-house server And I have a server alias www2.abc.com and I'm trying to create a let's encrypt certificate for www2.abc.com.

In each case the website is the same on each server. I can't seem to find a way to create certificate for www2.abc.com

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Paul

 

[MarkM]

Just making sure - Since you're putting www2 to your in-house server, you are setting up the SSL cert there correct? What panel do you use on your in-house server?

 

[toomanylogins]

Yes I have plesk onyx as teh pane for the in house server but cannot see how to create a cert using let encrypt extension with www2 prefix

 

[Sergio Manzi]

Assuming from your above answers that in your "in house" server you already have a subscription that covers example.com and www.example.com (let's not talk about a domain owned by the ABC Television Network!), what I'll do is to add a domain alias for www2.example.com.

With this in effect you'll be able to request a certificate that covers www2.example.com too (and www.www2.example.com as well, but you you can disregard that...)

 

[toomanylogins]

Thanks Segio, www is on a public server and www2 is on our inhouse for testing. I have it resolved but only by having nginx
as a proxy on different box serve the ssl not plesk.

 

[Sergio Manzi]

Thanks Segio, www is on a public server and www2 is on our inhouse for testing. I have it resolved but only by having nginx
as a proxy on different box serve the ssl not plesk.

Yes that can be a solution too, although not "the Plesk way (tm)"

Maybe above I haven't been clear: what I was proposing was to create the domain alias in your in-house Plesk server only...

 

[toomanylogins]

Thanks Sergio, I tried as follows. First I created a domain www2.abc.com this didnt work so then I did as you suggest which as was create a domain abc.com with a serveralias www2 this is how I have it setup. However you cannot create the lets encrypt Certificates because it also tries to create www.abc.com at the same time and this resolves to a different IP address therefore you get an error. If you use nginx directly you can create certificate for www2.abc.com only.

 

[Sergio Manzi]

it also tries to create www.abc.com at the same time and this resolves to a different IP address therefore you get an error.

You're right! Didn't thought about that!!