09 Jul 2013 1 min read Tutorial

Configuring Wildcard AlphaSSL from Centrio Host

This article is dedicated to Junjiang, a member in LowEndTalk.

Generating the CSR
Ordering at Centrio Host
Put the coupon : LET2SSL
Confirming the email
Receiving the email

In the received email, we would have some long line with the code like bellow :

MUST BE INSTALLED ON YOUR WEB SERVER:
Your SSL Certificate (Formatted for the majority of web server
software including IIS and Apache based servers):
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEwjCCA6qgAwIBAgISESG0oF5qDhFRTOer2K4ezFMvMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUA
k6zVnkLbO61NznKk7OqVHYS+ZHpo6g==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
Intermediate Certificate:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIELzCCAxegAwIBAgILBAAAAAABL07hNwIwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwVzELMAkG
+MPpZqmyIJ3E+LgDYqeF0RhjWw==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Copy paste the line from the SSL Certificate and the Intermediate Certificate into one file, for example the file is /etc/ssl/httpd/erawan.me.crt :

Configure the Nginx
Because I’m using Minstall for configuring my vps, the Nginx configuration would be at /etc/nginx/host.d/erawan.me.conf :

server {
	listen 443 ssl;
	server_name erawan.me;
	ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/http/erawan.me.crt;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/http/erawan.me.key;
	access_log off;
	error_log /home/erawan/http/logs/erawan.me.log;
	index index.html index.php;
	root /home/erawan/http/erawan.me;
	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
	client_max_body_size 2000M;
	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/cache.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/deny.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/php.d/erawanarifn.conf;
}

Restart the Nginx, and it’s all done 🙂
Thanks to CentrioHost for providing the cheap Wildcard AlphaSSL