Hi,
I’ve enabled branch deploy for the www branch in GitHub. I can hit the www site, but it is not secure. How do I turn on HTTPS or is there a better way to get www added to my URL than branch deploy?
Thank you,
Thomas
hi thomas, welcome to community.
we’ll need quite a bit more information before we can help you. See this post for some guidelines 
Hi Perry and thanks for responding.
Specifically what I want to do is have my site accessible when someone types “www” before it.
In setting the site name via settings/general the site I enter “mysite” and mysite.netflify.com is created and I’d like to be able to use www.mysite.netlify.com as well.
I tried adding the domain www.mysite.netlify.com via settings/domain/setup and I get the message “A site can only have one Netlify address”
After further research, I found branch deploys via “settings/deploys” so I created a “www” branch in GitHub and enabled “Let me add individual branches”. From that, I can now hit www.mysite.netlify.com however, it is not secure - I get the message “Your connection to this site is not secure”
The short version is I’d like to be able to use add “www” so I can use www.mysite.netlify.com but can’t quite get there. It is currently working from a branch deploy, but is not HTTPS enabled. How can I turn that on?
Or maybe there is a better approach than using branch deploy?
It is entirely possible that I don’t know enough to ask the right questions, so please let me know what further details you might need to help me resolve this.
Thank you for your help!
Hi @thomas
Since mysite.netlify.com is already a subdomain of netlify.com, what you are trying to do won’t work, unfortunately. It’s not possible to add a www subdomain to a netlify subdomain. Our wildcard SSL certificate does not support that, and our platform does not support dots in the subdomain name.
You’ll need to add a custom domain to your site in order to have a www subdomain.
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