Certificates are usually purchased from a Certificate Authority. If you purchase a certificate from a Certificate Authority, you'll need to get the certificate and key on to your web server.
- [Narrator] If you're planning to use a certificate…from a certificate authority, take a moment…and go through that process.…The creation of a signed certificate can take a while,…so keep that in mind.…At the end of the process, you should have access…to two pieces of text, or they may be available…to you as files.…One will be the private key,…and the other will be the certificate.…If you have them as text, take a moment…to copy and paste them into your own plain text files.…The private key should go into a file ending with .key…to keep things organized,…and the certificate should go into one ending with .crt.…
I'll take a moment here and create a file…for my key and my certificate in my home folder.…And then I'll copy and paste the information…from my registrar into each of these.…You'll need to find where this information is…wherever you got your certificate from.…I'll copy my certificate here…and open up the certificate file.…I'll save that, and then I'll copy my private key.…
If you are given files instead,…
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12/14/2016- Starting up and shutting down a web service
- Configuring logging on Apache
- Adding modules to extend Apache
- Using virtual hosts
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