Namesilo referred me to ‘Let’s Encrypt’, but I can’t find any step-by-step instructions for automated creation of an SSL certificate. Namesilo’s instructions were of no help (i.e. the onsite instructions). Does an automated process exist and can anyone point me to the instructions?
I am fairly au fait with technical stuff, but this process is new to me and I’m somewhat defeated by the unfamiliar jargon that I’ve come across.
I’m getting ‘too many redirects’ errors when I use the ‘http://’ prefix on my site and when I place ‘https://’ in front of my domain, I get the scary Google notice warning about my dangerous site. So I really need help with getting an SSL certificate installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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My web server is (include version): Not applicable
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Windows 10 Home 64-bit latest version
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: namesile.com, but running domain on Shopify
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): Not a control panel, but I can change DNS settings, DS records etc.
the http redirection fails, as it redirects to "www" and then back to itself (all via http) on and on and on, back and forth in an endless loop; as shown below:
openssl s_client -connect 167.114.213.199:443
no response
openssl s_client -connect 23.227.38.32:443
subject=/C=CA/ST=Ontario/L=Ottawa/O=Shopify Inc./CN=*.myshopify.com
issuer=/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA
If your site is ran on a "shared hosting" server, provided by some kind of provider, this provider should be the one to enable you to use SSL. This can be in the form of just a button to get a Let's Encrypt certificate (some providers have integrated Let's Encrypt very well) or, less ideal, provide some kind of way to upload the private key and certificate to your site.
If you have some kind of (virtual) private server, you could use a client yourself, such as certbot.
This depends largely on what your use is for the two sites (IPs).
If you only need one site (shopify), then redirect everything to it.
If you need separate sites, then you need separate names for them.
In any case, you should probably have unique names that resolve to each IP individually.
At this time you have one name that resolves to one IP and another name that resolve to both IPs.
So the first thing to fix is DNS.
My opinion:
Keep "watchstore247.com" & "www.watchstore247.com" to your IP and send any "store" related requests to "watch-store-24-7.myshopify.com".