1. Know thy site's name: web address www.sitename.com is different from sitename.com Forum: forums.sitename.com is different from sitename.com/forums might as well just use the sitename.com ssl. 2. Communicate with your web developer. Always have an open communication with your developer, to prevent item1. 3. RTFM is the best key when generating, installing and configuring the SSL config of apache. http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-apache.htm 4. Always ask Big brother google and be elaborate to descriptive in searching. Cheers