It was a bit of trouble to get it done, even after my purchase was approved. But I have ît now 🙂
Here I just want to share the information with you, since the FAQ on the GoDaddy website wasn’t particularly helpful. I had chosen the multi-domain certificate for up to five domains. It was clear that besides the CN (Common Name) they’d allow me to enter the SANs (Subject Alternative Names). However, this didn’t quite work out. When I had created my CSR (Certificate Signing Request) and tried to submit it, the system refused it and referred me back to the tech support. Darn …
This meant waiting one more day as – due to the timezone difference – the problem would be handled only when it was night in my timezone again. Anyway, I got a reply. Now I had originally pasted my CSR along with the support request in order to help them figure it out. The CSR was complete (with the begin/end markers) so that could be ruled out. However, apparently the CSR parser over there doesn’t like if you enter the SANs already before submitting the CSR, so the final hint from the tech support came in handy: I’d be able to enter the SANs after submitting the actual CSR, so I should try submitting my CSR without SANs. Done – and it worked. So why isn’t this documented in their FAQ? Anyone could have done that easily. The challenging part was originally to get the SANs into the CSR.
But well, it works now. So if anyone else is using these multi-domain certificates from GoDaddy.com, this should help figure out the missing link that wasn’t in the online help 😉
// Oliver