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I did not purchase a wildcard certificate, but I see a big problem with my setup. When I navigate to https://www.redmeetsblue.org I do not have a certificate, like the one I have for http://redmeetsblue.org

How can I redirect the user, from https://www.redmeetsblue.org to http://redmeetsblue.org without the user noticing that there are certificate problems? Is this possible?

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  • Question in title is not the same as what you ask for in description...
    – Automatico
    Aug 26, 2014 at 10:25

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Not possible. Since your certificate is not valid for www., browser will display a warning before following any redirect you set.

Go on and purchase either a separate certificate for www., or one that includes both -www. and naked domain. Note that widcard alone may not be enough - *.example.com does not cover example.com, unless example.com is also explicitly enabled in the certificate.

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  • How about through DNS. Is this possible through some DNS mechanism? or will I be stuck with buying another cert?
    – JZ.
    Oct 11, 2013 at 4:56
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    @JZ. Not possible through DNS.
    – Sandman4
    Oct 11, 2013 at 4:59
  • It is possible with DNS if you delete your www A/CNAME record. If there's no www.yourdomain.com DNS record then users can't open their browsers to www.yourdomain.com. You'll be left with only the naked domain.
    – joeqwerty
    Oct 11, 2013 at 5:03

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