The Most Concise, Hands-On Explanation of Setting Up SSL Wildcard Certificates Ever

Setting up TLS and SSL much more complex than meets the eye. First, there's the issue of owning a Wild Card certificate, which historically had prices above $400, but now can be purchased for $42. Why is a wildcard certificate useful in how you set it up? Another complexity of setting up an SSL certificate is understanding all the interactions with the domain registrar and the certificate authority, which provides you the certificate. Setting up your A records, TXT, and CNAMES is only the beginning. You have to learn about certificate signing requests and generating private keys. You have to learn about sha256 encryption and domain name validation. Going a step further, if you plan to use that certificate with Azure app services to secure your website, you'll need to convert to a PFX file format.

There are a number of special skills that are required to get this done, starting with a deep familiarity with command line utility, openssl. Then there is knowing how to properly do a conversion to a PFX file format, that includes of a x509, root, and intermediate certificates, in addition to the private key along with its password.

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