Hello -
I have used this article https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-apache-in-ubuntu-16-04 to get my Ubuntu 16.04 server set up for SSL. I am going to use a security company that asks me to remove any existing SSL certificates and set-up. I was wondering the steps I need to take to reverse the above tutorial.
Thanks!
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Hey there,
If you follow the reverse of that tutorial, and just do the opposite (so removing) it should work.
If you comment out / delete the following from your virtual hosts file
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
Or whatever you’ve named the files (I’ve just copied it from that tutorial!), once it’s working you can delete those files:
rm /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
rm /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
Hope this helps,
- James
Thanks for the response, James.
I also found these commands helpful in disabling SSL.
sudo a2dismod ssl sudo a2dissite default-ssl sudo service apache2 restart
And follow the prompts from the command line.
I didn’t adjust the firewall settings as I wouldn’t think it would be a bad thing to leave the option for SSL traffic.
If I’m missing something, I’m open to suggestions. As of right now, it appears to have worked.
Thanks!
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