Category: Let’s Encrypt Guide
Installing SSL on Subfolders
It’s not possible to install an SSL Certificate on a subfolder. To enable SSL on a subfolder you can install an SSL Certificate on your root domain. As soon as you have that installed, you also have SSL on your subfolder. The only thing left to do now is to activate SSL in Really Simple SSL. Important A subfolder is different from a subdomain. The latter needs a wildcard to receive an SSL Certificate, while a subfolder can use the
Let’s Encrypt authorization with DNS
When generating a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your WordPress website, Really Simple Security will handle the authorization with a directory challenge by default. A file with a key will be created in the .well-known/acme-challenge directory. This is the easiest method, and it can be handled automatically in most cases. In some situations, this method is not possible. For example, if you need a Wildcard SSL certificate that covers the entire domain, including all of it’s subdomains (e.g., for