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Sub domain required for LE certs to be issued?

Kent Brockman
Hello Michael, I was about to post this as a followup on this thread, but decided that it could become a long talk and may be better to have it separated. I'm looking an answer to one specific thing: Why does LE require that you have www.sub.domain.com pointing to the same IP when you only need to use sub.domain.com. That's specially an issue when you have to host remote subdomains in a server that is not the DNS manager. When the remote provider points sub.domain.com it's almost logic that they don't point www.sub.domain.com to your IP. So, the AutoSSL logs will fill with a lot of: 12:05:07 AM WARN The domain "www.sub.domain.com" failed domain control validation: "www.sub.domain.com" does not resolve to any IPv4 addresses on the internet. This is also a nightmare that use to happen with domains using lots of subdomains set on Cloudflare. Is there any way to skip this requirement for www.sub.domain.com in order to allow issuance of certs for only sub.domain.com? Thanks in advance

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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, The "www" alias is setup by default, and thus AutoSSL attempts to setup a certificate for it. As of cPanel version 66, you can exclude subdomains and aliases from the AutoSSL feature for a specific account using the following option in cPanel:
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  • Kent Brockman
    Thanks for the info, I was unaware of such a functionality. It's great. Anyway, and given the previous tests I did, I reached the LE threshold of max requested certs by domain/IP/week :-), so I have to wait a couple more days until I can request the new ones. Thanks!
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