Guides tagged “autossl”
Step-by-step MdmHost guides about autossl, sorted A-Z.
10 guides
AutoSSL for customer accounts: check and fix SSL as a WHM reseller
How AutoSSL issues free SSL certificates for your customers' domains, how to check certificate status, turn it on in feature lists and fix failed domains.
CAA DNS records: control which CAs can issue your SSL
Understand CAA DNS records, check whether one blocks AutoSSL or your paid CA, and add correct CAA records in the cPanel Zone Editor without breaking renewals.
Fix an expired SSL certificate and renew it in time
Recover from an expired SSL certificate: find out why AutoSSL did not renew, re-run it, renew and reinstall a paid certificate and set up expiry monitoring.
Fix AutoSSL not issuing certificates in cPanel
Work out why cPanel AutoSSL fails for a domain: DNS not pointing here, DCV errors,.htaccess redirects, CAA records and rate limits, using the AutoSSL log in WHM.
Free AutoSSL or a paid SSL certificate: which do you need?
Compare MdmHost's free AutoSSL certificates with paid SSL: security, trust, validity, warranty and effort, plus clear cases where a paid certificate is worth it.
How to secure the WHM hostname with a free SSL certificate
Get a free, trusted SSL certificate for your cPanel server hostname with AutoSSL, check it with checkallsslcerts and remove the self-signed warning on port 2087.
How to set up AutoSSL in cPanel & WHM
Turn on AutoSSL in WHM, pick the certificate provider, run it for all users, read the logs and make sure free certificates keep renewing on their own.
Include or exclude domains from AutoSSL in cPanel
Control which domains and subdomains get free AutoSSL certificates in cPanel, exclude names that do not point to the server, and run a new check on demand.
Self-signed SSL certificates in cPanel: when and how to use them
Understand self-signed SSL certificates in cPanel: why browsers warn about them, when they are acceptable, how to generate one and how to replace it with a trusted AutoSSL certificate.
Use Cloudflare with SSL on MdmHost: Full (strict) setup
Set up Cloudflare correctly with MdmHost hosting: choose Full (strict) SSL mode, keep AutoSSL renewing behind the proxy, avoid redirect loops and fix 525 and 526 errors.
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