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SSl installation and configuration on ubuntu 14.04

Posted May 26, 2014 7.4k views
Hi, I purchased ssl certificate from Networkssolutions.com. and am trying to install it on my droplet, here what I did: - I generated CSR with common-name= www.mydomain.com as described in digitalocean tutorials. - I purchased the certificate for www.mydomain.com - I downloaded 3 files from networksolutions: - WWW-MYDOMAIN-COM.crt - AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt - NetworkSolutionsDVServerCA.crt - I went to /etc/apache2/site-available/default-ssl.conf and edited the following: - SSLEngine on - SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/WWW.MYDOMAIN.COM.crt - SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/mydomain.key - Added ServerName www.mydomain.com:443 - SSl enable - Apache2 restart But it is not working, what did I miss? thanks,
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DSpeichert May 26, 2014
Make sure you also add in apache's config file:
SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/your/CA.crt

And in CA.crt put contents of AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt and NetworkSolutionsDVServerCA.crt one after another.
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deepblue.designs May 26, 2014
@jerzy, did not work!

I also checked iptables and opened https port, still didn't work. please help! :)
thanks,
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deepblue.designs May 27, 2014
Guys I am stuck here, I checked every tutorial on the internet, and its not working! any help will be much appreciated, Thanks
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kamaln7 May 27, 2014
What's the domain? Do you get any errors?
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asb May 27, 2014
Are you seeing any errors in /var/log/apache2/error.log ?
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deepblue.designs May 27, 2014
No errors in log file.

my domain is fansrepublic.com
hostname output is: fansrepublic
hostname -f output is: fansrepublic
in dns I set CNAME to: www : @

/etc/hosts content is:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fansepublic
107.170.97.132 www.fansrepublic.com

I can open website, but not when I type https.

I don't know of this information is related, but maybe deserve mentioning

thanks
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kamaln7 May 27, 2014
It looks like there's nothing listening on port 443. Can you pastebin the output of the following commands? 
# List used ports

sudo netstat -plutn

# Output firewall rules

sudo iptables-save
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deepblue.designs May 27, 2014


root@fansepublic:/etc# sudo netstat -plutin
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 2100052 0 0 0 188399 0 0 0 BMRU
lo 65536 0 25507 0 0 0 25507 0 0 0 LRU



root@fansepublic:/etc# sudo iptables-save
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.21 on Tue May 27 12:58:06 2014
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [47745:20516892]
:fail2ban-ssh - [0:0]
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 22 -j fail2ban-ssh
-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 4268 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j DROP
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A fail2ban-ssh -j RETURN
COMMIT
# Completed on Tue May 27 12:58:06 2014
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deepblue.designs May 27, 2014
Oh! ok guys I found my mistake: i changed the order of https rule in iptables to be before drop rule.

But, now I get SSL connection error in browser!! and there is nothing in error.log too

thank you Kamal for putting me in the right direction, but do u know what might cause SSL connection error?
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kamaln7 May 28, 2014
That's because your SSL certificate is valid only for www.fansrepublic.com and not fansrepublic.com. I would contact Network Solutions (or whoever your SSL issuer is) and see if you can reissue your certificate so that it works on fansrepublic.com. (If that's possible, take a backup of your current SSL certificate, and regenerate the CSR with "fansrepublic.com" as the Common Name, not "www.ansrepublic.com").
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