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Wildcard SSL certificate for second-level subdomain

I'd like to know if any certificates support a double wildcard like *.*.example.com? I've just been on the phone with my current SSL provider (register.com) and the girl there said they don't offer anything like that and that she didn't think it was…
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Is a wildcard CNAME DNS record valid?

I know it's valid to have a DNS A record that's a wildcard (e.g. *.mysite.com). Is it possible/valid/advised to have a wildcard CNAME record?
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In Bash, are wildcard expansions guaranteed to be in order?

Is the expansion of a wildcard in Bash guaranteed to be in alphabetical order? I am forced to split a large file into 10 Mb pieces so that they can be be accepted by my Mercurial repository. So I was thinking I could use: split -b 10485760 Big.file…
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Wildcard vhosts on Nginx

I've just installed Nginx on my server and am extremely happy with the results, however I still cannot figure out how to insert wildcard virtual hosts. This is the [directory] structure I'd like: -- public_html (example.com) ---subdoamin 1…
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Is a wildcard DNS record bad practice?

I asked my hoster to add three subdomains all pointing to the IP of the A record. It seems he simply added a wildcard DNS record because any random subdomain resolves to my IP now. This is OK for me from a technical point of view, since there are no…
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Nginx wildcard/regex in location path

The Nginx config I have throws 404 for .php like: ## Any other attempt to access PHP files returns a 404. location ~* ^.+\.php$ { return 404; } However I have some index.php file in subfolder that I want to run. The current config is…
user156477
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What is the difference between 0.0.0.0/0 and 0.0.0.0/1?

In the history, I mostly used 0.0.0.0/0 for "match every IP address". Recently, I saw a 0.0.0.0/1 subnet filter. What is the difference between 0.0.0.0/0 and 0.0.0.0/1 and what's the practical use of 0.0.0.0/1?
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Wildcard DNS with BIND

I'm trying to setup BIND so that it catches any and all requests made to it, and points them to a specific set of NS servers, and a specific A record. I have around 500 domains, and I'm adding new ones at the rate of 10-15 a day, so I don't want to…
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Can I use the same wildcard certification for *.domain.com and domain.com

You can make an SSL certificate by using *.domain.com as the name. But unfortunately, this doesn't cover https://domain.com Is there any fix for this?
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Wildcard DNS and subdomains

Let's that I've got the domain mydomain.com. I want that when any visitor goes to www.mydomain.com xyz.mydomain.com abc.mydomain.com asd.mydomain.com qwe.mydomain.com etc... the visitor will continue seeing "xyz.mydomain.com", but the real address…
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Configure DNS server to return same IP for all domains

I would like to configure a nameserver that will return the same IP address ("A" record) for any arbitrary host name. For example: example.com subdomain.example.com someotherdomain.com anyotherdomain.co.uk should all return the same IP address. Is…
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Exclude specific domains from Apache2 serverAlias while using a catch all *(wildcard) alias

I have a web application that needs to support custom domains, in that regard I have set-up the following name based virtual server: ServerName example.com ServerAlias * *.example.com www.example.com example.com …
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Second Level Subdomain DNS Wildcard

I need help setting up a second level subdomain. I have set up wildcard subdomains in the past with success, but I am having trouble with the DNS entry for this one. I need to do something like *.design.mydomain.com So I tried to create an A record…
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Can the same wildcard SSL certificate be used on different IP addresses and/or boxes?

Example: Wildcard SSL certificate for *.example.com installed on two different boxes. hostEU.example.com A 60.70.80.90 hostUS.example.com A 200.210.220.240 I assume this is a perfectly valid scenario, where the actual hostnames do not reside on…
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Can DNS host records be setup to create wildcard sub-subdomains

Is it possible to create a wildcard host record for a sub-subdomain ie *.foo.example.com?
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