Add domain name to certificate with letsencrypt-win-simple

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Hello,

I used letsencrypt-win-simple and created a certificate for domain1.com. The way I ran it I selected the number for the host and it created a domain.com certificate just fine. Today I find out I needed to create www.domain1.com and domain1.com. What do I have to do to fix this issue.
Thank You,

Joe

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Hello,

I think you should reconsider your approach. Having 2 sites with the same content, e.g. domain1.com and www.domain1.com is rarely considered as a good practice. SEO will warn you about double content and thus bad page ranking.
Here is my suggestion

If necessary you install the optional rewriting module of IIS https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

You put theses rules in the web.config

    <rewrite>
            <rules>
				<rule name="domain1.com vers www" stopProcessing="true">
					 <match url=".*" />
					 <conditions>
						 <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^domain1.com" />                 
					 </conditions>
					 <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domain1.com/{R:0}" />
				</rule>
				
				<rule name="Redirect to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
					<match url="(.*)" />
					<conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
					</conditions>
					<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
				</rule>        
</rewrite>

The result is the following : when a user arrives on http://domain1.com or http://www.domain1.com, he is automatically redirected to https://www.domain1.com. The same for search engine bots.

Best regards,

Guy

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Hello,

Thank You for the response. I created another binding for the website www.domain1.com and the cert recognized the cert.

Thanks for the help,

Joe

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