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We launched an ecommerce site a while back and got an ssl certificate for https://www.mysite.com. The site was abandoned for a while, and then recently resurrected. We got a new ssl certificate, but this time it was for https://mysite.com. Now, when people find the site on Google, the url is for https://www.mysite.com, and gives an untrusted site warning.

After some digging I've learned that I can't just redirect https://www.mysite.com to https://mysite.com without having a different ssl certificate for the www version. Is there a way I can correct this problem without having to buy another certificate?

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One option is to use Google's tools to remove a site from their index. Even if you did get a second certificate, the cache mix-up will be confusing to customers and developers alike. I think the most thorough solution is to remove the "bad" URL from Google's cache.

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Few people will have gone to the site at this point, so this may fully solve the problem. – dvcolgan Apr 19 '12 at 5:16
@dvcolgan Even if it's not the total solution, I think it has to be at least a large part of it. Then, of course, you'll want to check Bing and Yahoo to see what they've cached and how to go about removing any traces. – WesleyDavid Apr 19 '12 at 5:18

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