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Creating a wildcard SSL certificate in Plesk

A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a “*” as the left most label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com.

A wildcard DNS record in a zone file looks similar to this example:

*.serverbuddies.com. 3600 IN MX 10 host1.serverbuddies.com.

This wildcard DNS record will cause DNS lookups on domain names ending in example.com that do not exist to have MX records synthesized for them. So, a lookup for the MX record for somerandomname.example.com would return an MX record pointing to host1.example.com.

Since version 8.0.1 Plesk allows to create and use certificates for Wildcard domain names (like *.serverbuddies.com.com).

Wildcard certificate can be created the same way that usual certificate is generated. The only difference that you specify the name with “*” sign in the left path, for example *.serverbuddies.com” domain name in the Wildcard certificate will match all this domain’s subdomains, like mail.serverbuddies.com, ftp.serverbuddies.com, etc