How can I install a Comodo Essential SSL certificate on my Centos 6.0 droplet

January 26, 2014 18.5k views
ankit-yadav
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Could someone please guide me through the steps of installing the Comodo Essential SSL certificate on my Centos 6.0 droplet. Thanks Ankit Yadav
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pablo January 27, 2014
It depends on what you want to use it for? A mail server? A web server?
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ankit-yadav January 27, 2014
@Pablo I want to use it as a web server.
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kamaln7 MOD January 27, 2014
What webserver are you using? Apache?
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ankit-yadav January 27, 2014
@Kamal Nasser I will be using Apache.
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kamaln7 MOD January 29, 2014
Check out https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-apache-for-centos-6.

Skip Step 3 and follow Steps 2 & 3 of the following article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-nginx-for-centos-6.
How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 6
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial explains how to create a self-signed SSL certificate, how to add it to your server, and how to configure the SSL file to display the certificate to the world. A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site's information and create a more secure connection. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that verify the server's details while a self-signed certificate has no 3rd party corroboration. This tutorial is written for Apache on a Centos server.
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ankit-yadav January 30, 2014
@ Kamal Nasser Thanks for the articles, but one question these articles show how to install self signed certificates, but can I install ssl validated by Comodo using the same procedure?
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kamaln7 MOD January 31, 2014
@snaphoteldeal: Yes, you can install a Comodo SSL cert as long as you do what I said (follow the first article, stop at step 3, follow steps 2 & 3 of the second article, and proceed with the first article).
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stephen February 28, 2014
I'm trying to follow https://digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-apache-for-ubuntu-12-04 (this is my droplet's setup)

this is a virtual host, wit several sites, one of which I want to run an ecommerce site on, and need SSL

I want to move a SSL certificate from another host. The certificate is provided by comodo

when I edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
I See
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key


the files I brought over from the old server are
ca.crt
server.crt
server.key
(no .PEM file -is that a problem?)

located as directed in /etc/apache2/ssl/


Should I change /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl to point to the new docs?

will it break my sftp setup?

thanks!
How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial explains how to create a self-signed SSL certificate, how to add it to your server, and how to configure the SSL file to display the certificate to the world. A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site's information and create a more secure connection. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that verify the server's details while a self-signed certificate has no 3rd party corroboration. This tutorial is written for Apache on an Ubuntu server.
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davidjohnrace March 27, 2014
Hi Ankit Yadav

Please check in this link
https://support.comodo.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=964&ratingconfirm=1

You get answers for question
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c6f6e019b0a232ce1c6c6ce1bcee34d3 April 6, 2014
I wrote a simple guide on installing commercial SSLs: http://fang.ws/blog/how-to-install-ssl-certificate-apache-ubuntu
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