Comments on: SSL on Ubuntu 8.10 Apache2

By: subodh

subodh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:06:09 +0000

Awesome and very simple to understand article

By: mike

mike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:55:42 +0000

Here is a link for setting up certs that should help.

http://beginlinux.com/blog/2009/01/create-ssl-certificate-with-godaddycom/

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:23:07 +0000

How would I go about setting up the SSL with a cert I bought online? Would I drop it into the /etc/ssl/private and /etc/ssl/certs folders?

Thanks.

By: Dakos

Dakos — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:52:14 +0000

@Bryan

Replace this:
sudo openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
With:
sudo openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024

To generate a key without needing a passphrase so your server can start without interruption.

By: kwasi

kwasi — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:19:56 +0000

Hi all, very good post, im new at this but im not getting the site to work in secure mode (https)
or the little lock at the bottom doesn’t closes. am i doing something wrong

By: mike

mike — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:48:48 +0000

This is typical when you restart the server and you have the SSL certificate on that site.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:44:15 +0000

Not sure if I missed a step or something, but when I restart the server, it pauses and wants me to enter the key for the private key file. Any ideas?

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:38:32 +0000

Thank You very much. This article was very helpful in quickly setting up a webserver with SSL on Linux with Apache2 – specially since I was pressed for time and didnt have time to sit and poke around.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:53:31 +0000

You would have to buy a certificate from a secure source like GoDaddy. They cost about $300

By: James

James — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:16:33 +0000

Follow up to my question: Is there a way to set the Website of the Certificate so that IE doesn’t give this error: “The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address.”?

Yes. You set the “Common Name” to your website address.

Thanks again!