title: Is a wildcard SSL cert necessary if all sub-domains point to the website root
body: <p>I am completely new to SSL certificates and need to purchase one pretty soon. There seems to be a huge price increase when sub-domains come into play.</p>
  
  <p>My question is this:</p>
  
  <p>I have my site set up so that <strong>username.domain.com</strong> is rewritten via htaccess to <strong>domain.com?user=username</strong></p>
  
  <p>If I have my web site set up so that all sub-domains are virtual and point to the same location, do I need to buy a wild-card SSL Cert?</p>