What to do between buying your certificate and having it installed.
Buying the certificate is the first of four steps. Here is the whole route: generate the CSR, enrol the order, validate the domain and install.
Intermediate certificates complete the chain of trust. Without them your site looks fine on your own machine and broken on a customer phone.
A private key cannot be recovered: nobody else holds one. Where to look before giving it up, and how to reissue at no cost if it really is gone.
The asterisk covers one level of subdomains, not all of them. What a wildcard actually protects, the three most repeated mistakes, and when something...
