ihaveaproblem Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 I want to buy a ssl cert from 123-reg for our internal domain ( school.local ) as they are the cheapest. During the buy proccess it asks for a domain name, so I type school.local However it doesnt accept this. I presume because it's not a known domain to the outside world. How do I buy a cert for my internal domain if it doesnt accept the domain name?
glennda Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 What is the cert for? Normally you just setup an Internal CA and then it can easily be added as a trusted CA via Group Policy to clients and you have it done for free.
ihaveaproblem Posted July 21, 2012 Author Posted July 21, 2012 What is the cert for? Normally you just setup an Internal CA and then it can easily be added as a trusted CA via Group Policy to clients and you have it done for free. It's for guest wifi SSL login page (Smoothwall), so needs to be a cert from a trusted CA so people are not constantly greeted with a warning I wanted to use 123-reg because it seems to be the cheapest by far at £9.99 a year SSL certificates | Internet security | 123-reg.co.uk The problem is when I click buy and Log In to my account it asks for a domain name, and when I enter the internal domain name which the certificate is for it doesn't accept it, so I'm not sure how to buy a cert from them for my internal domain
glennda Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 Give your smoothwall a valid hostname then worked for me - mine was smoothwall.thedomain.org.uk doesn't have to be named in the same fashion as the AD domains. 1
ihaveaproblem Posted July 21, 2012 Author Posted July 21, 2012 Give your smoothwall a valid hostname then worked for me - mine was smoothwall.thedomain.org.uk doesn't have to be named in the same fashion as the AD domains. Ah right yeh I guess I could do that. Good idea If I do this I would need to regenerate the certificates used for https inspection/VPN etc though right?
tomgrindle Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 Don't know if this helps at all, but we got our certificate for free from JANET I think. Can't remember if we got it free because we are with SWGFL or because we were a school though ....
ihaveaproblem Posted July 21, 2012 Author Posted July 21, 2012 Don't know if this helps at all, but we got our certificate for free from JANET I think. Can't remember if we got it free because we are with SWGFL or because we were a school though .... Thanks. I've read up on this but from what I read your local authority has to register on your behalf. We are moving away from the LA for ISP, hosting and everything near enough, so I dont really want to get them involved in this, and for 10£ a year a purchased SSL cert will be ok Just reading up on what will break if I change the hostname of my smoothwall.
glennda Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Ah right yeh I guess I could do that. Good idea If I do this I would need to regenerate the certificates used for https inspection/VPN etc though right? Yes I believe so
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