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 installing a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for your WordPress website, Really Simple SSL will by default handle the authorisation with a directory challenge. A file with a key will be created in the .well-known/acme-challenge directory. This is the easiest method, and can be handled automatically in most cases. In some situations, this is not possible. For example if you need a wildcard SSL certificate (for multisite) or if your hosting provider blocks the creation of the directory and file,