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This is a bluehost question posted by rgammon on 25 November 2008

I have the following:

* lh-llc.com (main domain)
* backoffice.lh-llc.com (registered as add-on domain, in subdirectory of public_html)
* ec-test.lh-llc.com (registered as add-on domain, in subdirectory of public_html)
* Each domain runs its own Drupal instance.
* I have purchased a static IP and SSL certificate.

Can I share the SSL certificate, _without funky error dialogs in-browser_, among the subdomains? I want SSL for *.lh-llc.com, basically.

Prior to purchasing, I conversed with a phone tech who said this was possible, but it doesn’t appear to happen right out of the box. So, if the answer is “yes”, I’d like some directions. If “no”, then anything I can do short of having to make, for example, ec-test.lh-llc.com its own main domain?

I do note that my SSL cert is registered for both www.lh-llc.com and lh-llc.com. It is arbitrary that www.lh-llc.com and lh-llc.com refer to the same application instance, right?

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