Ssllabs gave A rating, but ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

#1

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My domain is: www.nadopay.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output: It asked me whether I want to use the cert for www.nadopay.com or nadopay.com.
I just the first version (with the www). Everything seemed to work fine, and I got A rating on ssllabs as well. It also asked me whether I want redirect traffic (to HTTPS) so i said yes.

My web server is (include version): apache

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Centos 7

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Vultr, but I don’t think it’s applicable. i used comodo fine before.

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): 0.31.0

I would really appreciate any help. Thank you.

#2

Hi @ihseo

that’s wrong. If you want a certificate with a main domain name (like example.com), you should always include both domain names www.example.com + example.com.

Checked your domain you see the problem ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=nadopay.com ):

Domainname Http-Status redirect Sec. G
• http://nadopay.com/
167.179.78.237 301 https://nadopay.com/ 0.567 A
• http://www.nadopay.com/
167.179.78.237 301 https://www.nadopay.com/ 0.560 A
• https://nadopay.com/
167.179.78.237 302 https://nadopay.com/main/index.php 2.933 N
Certificate error: RemoteCertificateNameMismatch
• https://www.nadopay.com/
167.179.78.237 301 http://nadopay.com/ 2.650 F
• https://nadopay.com/main/index.php 301 https://nadopay.com/main/index 2.327 N
Certificate error: RemoteCertificateNameMismatch
• https://nadopay.com/main/index 200 2.617 N
Certificate error: RemoteCertificateNameMismatch

You use a preferred version (that’s good), but the result: The preferred version isn’t secure.

Your certificate has only one domain name:

CN=www.nadopay.com
	11.06.2019
	09.09.2019
expires in 90 days	www.nadopay.com - 1 entry

And you have a wrong redirect https -> http.

Start with

sudo certbot --apache -d nadopay.com -d www.nadopay.com

then recheck your domain, then check your redirects and remove the wrong https + www -> http + non-www.

Replace that redirect with the correct redirect https + www -> https + non-www.

Then you have 3 redirects and one https destination (Grade B or better).

PS: You have some mixed content you should fix.

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