By jeffWalrus
I am trying to install Let’s Encrypt wild card SSL cert on my one and only domain, name servers are pointed to the Digital Ocean, which allows me to add the domain and pick subdomains but when I try to install it, I get this error: “Invalid wild card domain detected” Cannot figure out why?
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Hi there,
Have you followed a specific tutorial for setting this up?
Usually, to issue a wildcard Let’s Encrypt SSL you would need to have a wildcard DNS entry for your main domain as follows:
*.example.com A your_droplet_ip
After that, you could try using the python3-certbot-dns-digitalocean package. You could take a look at the steps on how to complete the rest of the configuration with the DigitalOcean API token here:
Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby
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