How do I check my certificate was installed correctly? - SSL Certificates - Namecheap.com (2024)
To be sure that the certificate has been installed correctly and working properly, as well as that your customers are certain a secured connection is enabled and it covers data transmission through your website, you have the following indicators:
No error messages/ warnings occurred when connecting through https://yourdomain.tld.
A Site Seal provided by the Certificate Authority installed and visible.
Note: From September 2023, the padlock icon will be replaced by a tune icon in thenew Chrome browser version. Google's reasoning is that secured HTTPS connections have become the online norm, not the exception, and no longer serve as a trust indicator. As such, the tune icon itself will not be a trust indicator but will provide detailed information about a website's connection and settings. So moving forward, when using a Chrome browser, the primary indication of a successful SSL certificate installation on a site will be the absence of security warnings:
To test whether the SSL installation is successful, you can try visiting your site from different browsers and see if the URL has been appropriately changed to HTTPS protocol. The security information is displayed on the browser, as explained earlier.
To check a domain/subdomain and its SSL certificate, paste the fully-qualified domain/subdomain name (FQDN) (e.g. namecheap.com) in the "Hostname" field and make sure to select the appropriate port (443 is used by default). If your SSL is viable, a blue window will appear under the "Report" section.
Some offer it for free and some charge for the SSL installation. Same comes to the SSL certificates services, you may find companies who offer free SSL certificates and those who sell paid ones. On Namecheap.com, you can get a free SSL certificate upon registering a hosting account using a shared hosting plan.
A padlock icon and green address bar on the web browser. An https prefix on the website address on the browser. A valid SSL/TLS certificate. You can check if the SSL/TLS certificate is valid by clicking and expanding the padlock icon on the URL address bar.
You can use a tool like SSL Checker, SSL Certificate Checker, or SSL Server Test, which will verify that an SSL certificate is installed and not expired, that the domain name is correctly listed on the certificate, and more. To use the tool, just copy and paste your site address into the search bar.
Open Chrome Developer Tools. The quickest way there is with a keyboard shortcut: OS. Keyboard. Shortcuts. Windows and Linux. Ctrl + Shift + i. F12. Mac. ⌘ + Option + i. ...
Select the Security tab. If it is not shown, select the >> as shown below.
The most common cause of a "certificate not trusted" error is that the certificate installation was not properly completed on the server (or servers) hosting the site. Use our SSL Certificate tester to check for this issue. In the tester, an incomplete installation shows one certificate file and a broken red chain.
Open Chrome Developer Tools. The quickest way there is with a keyboard shortcut: OS. Keyboard. Shortcuts. Windows and Linux. Ctrl + Shift + i. F12. Mac. ⌘ + Option + i. ...
Select the Security tab. If it is not shown, select the >> as shown below.
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