Planning on moving my forums to SSL but there are considerations

[Mouth]

What am i misinformed about?

Potentially, Erik P.'s incorrect post that you need to purchase an expensive wildcard ssl cert to support your change from http://www.yourdomain.com to https://yourdomain.com

I asked what would dropping the WWW do to me in terms of search engine, logins etc... Because you need a wild card cert for the WWW. I didnt want to spend that much on a cert, [...] I wont argue this further but do this correctly you need wild card for WWW.

See, you are misinformed.

I understand but why bother with SSL if you have those issues?

FYI, my SSL cert is installed but I'm not currently using it for browser traffic (because I have the same issue as you will - my ad server doesn't support https) and hence why you're getting the browser exclamation mark when coming to my site with https.

Anyway, I don't care enough to argue further either. Feel free to un-necessarily purchase a wildcard ssl cert when you're ready. No impact on me.

 

[dawg]

Potentially, Erik P.'s incorrect post that you need to purchase an expensive wildcard ssl cert to support your change from http://www.yourdomain.com to https://yourdomain.com


See, you are misinformed.


FYI, my SSL cert is installed but I'm not currently using it for browser traffic (because I have the same issue as you will - my ad server doesn't support https) and hence why you're getting the browser exclamation mark when coming to my site with https.

Anyway, I don't care enough to argue further either. Feel free to un-necessarily purchase a wildcard ssl cert when you're ready. No impact on me.

Thanks for your input even though it was off-topic from the original question.