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Asked: 2026-05-30T21:07:24+00:00

I am currently building an application that I will host and will have multi-tenants

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I am currently building an application that I will host and will have multi-tenants (SaaS) called over the web, I would like them to be able to have subdomain.theircompany.com be able to point to subdomain.mycompany.com (or if they wish, point a full TLD to a subdomain with me).

The way I have been expecting this to work is to simply have a wildcard ‘ServerAlias *.mycompany.com’ in my Apache config pointing to my application, which then extracts the host being called…They then redirect via a CNAME entry on their host.

My question is, would this approach allow external subdomains to be pointed to a CNAME URL instead of IP? As this runs on one account on my system, am I able to install an SSL for a single wildcard if that customers wants to be running on SSL?

Any other suggestions/approaches would be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    A CNAME will work for the purposes of naming, but not for the purposes of a wildcard SSL cert.

    Specifically, example.theircompany.com can have a CNAME record with a value of example.yourcompany.com. This will mean that example.theircompany.com will transparently resolve to your site. In other words, a browser still sees example.theircompany.com, not example.yourcompany.com.

    As such, the SSL cert must be for the theircompany.com domain, not the yourcompany.com domain.

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