When I type www.dementia-counselling.co.uk as a URL, the certificate does not work. I have had the certificate since last October and successfully renewed it.
I installed the certificate using Really Simple SSL plugin which now indicates an error "Could not verify alias domain. Please check if the www version of your site also points to this website. If this is not the case, don't add this alias to your certificate." This seems to be a recent thing. I checked the DNS records and there is a CNAME record www.dementia-counselling.co.uk.
Please accept my apologies that my technical knowledge is clearly way below most of you here - that's why I used the Really Simple SSL plugin but I would appreciate it if anyone could guide me as to how to correct this problem e.g. uninstall Really Simple SSL/the certificate ... or is there something relatively simple I could do to correct the problem?
Thank you.
My web server is (include version): Don't know.
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Don't know.
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: TSO Host (now part of GoDaddy)
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): I don't know.
I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): - I'm using CPANEL to manually install the certificates once Really Simple SSL has produced the keys.
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): I am not using these.
As you can see from the certificate renewals: crt.sh | dementia-counselling.co.uk
the www name wasn't included in the last renewal and it is why that name is having security issues.
[that cert expired on Jan 4]
I don't know why cPanel/Really Simple SSL plugin/WordPress have failed you, but that's not something this forum is dedicated to.
Maybe someone here has a similar setup and can advise you on them.
Until then, I would review them all for the missing "www".
AND
Also review any notes you have from when you originally secured the site with a certificate.
Yes, but you should be aware of the rate limits.
If you start to run into trouble, STOP, and switch to the testing/staging environment until all testing has been completed.
