Tool

SSL Checker

Check the certificate a live server is actually presenting — hostname, chain, expiry, and whether it matches. Supports SNI and STARTTLS.

This one is different from the other tools: to check a live server, your hostname is sent to sslguides.com's own server, which connects to it on your behalf — a browser can't open a raw TLS connection to an arbitrary host itself. No certificate data is stored.

Certificate presented by this server

Setting this up on your own server

This tool needs a small PHP backend, since a browser can't open a raw TLS connection to an arbitrary host on its own. Upload ssl-checker.php (from the site package) to your PHP hosting — any PHP 7.1+ host with the OpenSSL extension works, which is nearly all of them — then point the CHECKER_ENDPOINT constant near the top of this page's script at wherever you placed it. By default it assumes /ssl-checker.php at your site's root.