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My domain is:
lsl-technology.com
What I am trying to achieve:
I want to install a wildcard certificate on the domain, but according to the documentation that I am following, I am told to create an A record DNS entry as follows.
*.lsl-technology.com. 3600 IN A ipaddress.
then it says that I should test the DNS entry by running www.lsl-technology.com and that should qualify to the correct ipaddress.
The issue that I have is I have all of my sub-domains located behind a completely different ipaddress.
My question is how can I implement the wildcard when I have the primary domain on one ipaddress and the subdomains on a separate ipaddress.
My web server is (include version):
nginx version: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Rochen
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
yes
I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
no
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 2.9.0
I look forward to your advice.
Thanks
Lawrence