Wildcard SSL and Wildcard hostnames

Reinis Rozitis r at roze.lv
Mon May 11 15:59:34 UTC 2015


> ELB had only our other SSL Cert configured and not our new one. Darn it. 
> We
> don't use ELB for example.co because you can't CNAME the root domain so 
> that
> hit our server directly and of course with the tweaked config worked fine.

It's offtopic but technically you can or life always finds a way - 
Cloudflare for example offers a workaround as "CNAME flattening" 
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root/ 
with a usecase exactly for ELB.

rr 



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