A wildcard certificate from Godaddy was recently purchased by my organization. While walking through the steps on the Godaddy's site to setup the cert, I typed in the domain name instead of uploading a CSR. Fast forward, this will be for Windows servers and I downloaded the certificate bundle. I see one PEM file and two CRT files. In short, the PEM file is really a Certificate and not the private key. Since I did not upload a CSR and let Godaddy do this, how do I get the private key?
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So, I bought an SSL Certificate from godaddy for one of my domains. it gave me one generated-csr.txt and generated-private-key.txt. I've been looking for a while on how to deploy a CSR certificate, but couldn't find any that is understandable. Even godaddy itself uses the .crt format in their tutorial
Also they uses SSLCertificateChainFile which I don't if I am suppose to chain my private key and csr to get this or what?
URL: https://au.godaddy.com/help/manually-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-my-apache-server-centos-5238
Can someone explain, how do I deploy my certificate manually to apache2?
I have a VPS with Apache2.
I have installed SSL before in my websites, but always form freeSSL or ZeroSSL, they give me 3 files:
Private.key
ca_bundle.crt
certificate.crt
I replace them for the old ones and all is peachy (I configured it once and just replace the files on reactivation).
Now I have issued a year long SSL service from Comodo SSL, and they send me a mail with this information:
"Thank you for placing your order. We are pleased to announce that your PositiveSSL Certificate for * has been issued.
Attached to this email you should find a .zip file containing:
Root CA Certificate - AAACertificateServices.crt
Intermediate CA Certificate - USERTrustRSAAAACA.crt
Intermediate CA Certificate - SectigoRSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt
Your PositiveSSL Certificate - ***.crt
You can also find your PositiveSSL Certificate for ** in text format at the bottom of this email."
And I really have no Idea what to do... I tried Google but can't find any guide, they talk about CSR or other things and I just want to install this and forget about it for a year like I did before for 90 days...
Please help me, I need to have SSL running for my Magento 2 installation to work.
To use a certificate you need the certificate file itself (.crt) AND the key file (.key) ( Extensions may vary but, as you know, on linux it doesn't matter): if you're missing one of these, you're pretty much screwed.
To get a certificate, the following steps are necessary:
a key file needs to be generated
from the key file a CSR is generated
the CSR is signed by a CA (for you it's Comodo) and the result is the certificate file
The key file and the csr can be generate by you (who are requesting the new certificate) or (in this case) by Comodo during the procedure you followed. According to what you wrote, probably, during the procedure you've been asked to provide a key or let them generate one and you picked the 2nd option.
I've never used Comodo so I don't know how their interface works but IMHO you have 2 options: login with your account and look for an area where you can download the certificate and check for the possibility to download the key too OR contact them and ask for support to download the key file.
There is no way to use the certificate file without a key file.
I generated the certificate using an option of my webhosting service (Hostinger) to buy a comodo SSL certificate, as I said the email of Comodo didn't give me the key file BUT, after some hours the comodo ssl service started showing on my webhosting control center and going through some menus I reached a button called "download SSL", that downloaded a ZIP with the same files PLUS the key file. This was very random and nowhere stated, and I found it by coincidence but is solved. Thanks. The other option was to reach Comodo or Hostinger for help.
I am trying to set an HTTP load balancer with SSL.
I have two files - certificate.pem and unencryptedkey.pem.
But the UI of google asks for three fields:
Public key certificate,
Certificate chain,
Private key
What goes where and where do I get the third one?
I managed to use only 2 but the browser asks for permission and that is wrong.
When you buy the SSL certificate you should get some more files. In my case, I got a .ca file (certificate chain), a .crt file (the certificate), a .csr file (the request), and a .key file (your private key)
You need
public key => the crt file
certificate chain => your ca file(s concatenated)
private key => your .key
My guess is that you have created the certificates, i.e. you haven't purchased them from some certificate authority. With self-signed certificates browser warns you, since certificate validity can't be verified from a certificate authority.
If this is the case, you should do some learning regarding certificates and how they work.
I am trying to move a website into Azure (Azure Website). I have everything moved, except the ssl isn't working. The error that comes up says
You attempted to reach [subdomain].[domain].com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.azurewebsites.net ...
I think it may have something to do with my certificate. The cert is a UCC cert (multiple SAN) through GoDaddy. I did not rekey the cert when I moved the site from the old server to the Azure Website. The old server was managed using Parallels. Here is what I did to move the cert:
I logged into Parallels on the old server. I opened the SSL screen, where I could see the 4 parts of the cert (csr, private key, certificate, CA certificate). I copied the text for each of those (including the ---Begin Certificate--- and ---End Certificate--- lines. EDIT: the private key began with ---Begin RSA Private Key--- and ended with ---End RSA Private key), and I pasted the data to create 4 .txt files. I then renamed the txt files so that I had 4 files named CAcertificate.cer, certificate.cer, privateKey.pem, and cert.cer. They were all saved in the c:\ directory (root).
I then pulled up OpenSSL and ran the following command:
pkcs12 -export -in c:\certificate.cer -inkey c:\privateKey.pem -out c:\certificate.pfx -certfile c:\CAcertificate.cer
I entered a password twice, and out popped a certificate.pfx file.
I uploaded that file to my Azure Website. The UCC Cert applies to 4 subdomains. I have my Azure Website set up with only one of those subdomains as a domain name. After uploading the file, I went to SSL Binding, and chose that subdomain, matched it with the cert I just uploaded, and chose "SNI SSL." I saved it, and all looked good.
Unfortunately, when I browse to the subdomain, I get the error I listed at the beginning.
I have a CName set up to forward from that subdomain to the Azure Website. I also have an A record set up to point from that subdomain to the IP Address of the Azure Website. The site is pulling up as I would expect, except for the ssl certificate error.
Did I generate the .pfx file incorrectly? Is there something I need to change in Azure or my domain registrar? I noticed that I could download a .pem file from the parallels panel. It contained all 4 parts of the cert in one file. I didn't know what I could do with that.
A missing root or intermediate certification authority can cause this behavior as documented in this article (written by a Microsoft MVP).
This answer shows how to export the full certificate chain including the private key using OpenSSL for Windows.
If the certificate is already installed in your local Windows machine you can follow this guide and be sure to select
Yes, export the private key and
Include all certificates in the certification path if possible.
This will create a .pfx file containing your certificate, its private key as well as all intermediate and root CAs.
While I know nothing about SSL or installing SSL Certificates, I'm sure one of the many results Google will give me for CentOS, SSL certs and Apache would help.
However, the certificate files which have been provided for this project are a .pfx file, .cer (the certificate) file and a .txt (apparently a certificate request) file, none of which are mentioned in the articles I'm finding.. they all talk of .crt and .key files.
Is there a particular way I should be converting these files, presumably via openssl, into something I can use in Apache?
.pfx files tend to be PKCS#12 files (which will contain the private key, the certificate and possibly the issuer certificate chain). They're sometimes called .p12. OpenSSL can extract private key and certificate from PKCS#12 files (via its openssl pkcs12 command), you should be able to find documentation to do this, via Google or other questions on SO.