Nexcess Knowledge Base

Wildcard SSL certificates secure website URLs and an unlimited number of subdomains under a single IP address. Wildcard SSL certificates have the same level of security as standard SSL certificates.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers can use SiteWorx to install SSL certificates and set up an SSL chain certificate — regarding intermediate and root certificate authorities.

Learn about Domain Control Validation (DCV). By email, DNS record, and file authorization are the three methods Nexcess clients can use to send DCVs to Comodo when registering SSL certificates.

A Standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) server certificate is issued by the Certificate Authority (CA) and provides the lowest level of validation available.

Nexcess clients can learn how to perform various operations with SSL certificates for system services with NodeWorx.

Learn how to obtain an Extended Validation (EV) standard SSL certificate, the highest level of SSL certification. Nexcess is a certificate reseller of GeoTrust True BusinessID with EV certificates.

A chain of SSL certificates contains all of the SSL certificates (root, intermediate, and end user) issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) required to verify the subject in the hierarchy of trust.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers can recreate SSL keys by either using SiteWorx or the command line interface (CLI).

Getting an SSL certificate first requires you to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and some require you to specify “domain.com” or “www.domain.com” as the common name of your website.

How to cancel an existing SSL certificate attached to a Nexcess service from within your Nexcess Client Portal.