Installing a ‘RapidSSL’ SSL Certificate on CentOS 6
Generating the SSL Make sure openssl is installed on the server yum install openssl Create an SSL directory to store all SSL files mkdir /etc/httpd/ssl Put your “yourdomain.crt” to /etc/httpd/ssl Put your Intermediate Certificate Advisory “intermediate.crt” to /etc/httpd/ssl Generate the key for the SSL certificate openssl genrsa –des3 –out yourdomain.tld.key 2048 Generate the csr for the SSL certificate openssl req –new –key youdomain.tld.key –out yourdomain.tld.csr Configure Apache for the SSL Make sure mod_ssl is installed yum install mod_ssl Add the following to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf NameVirtualHost *:443 Add a virtual host entry to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for port 443<VirtualHost *:443> SSLEngine On SSLProtocol all –SSLv2 SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/mydomain.tld.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile...









