{"id":761,"date":"2015-01-07T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rapidsslonline.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2022-04-22T01:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:39:34","slug":"install-ssl-certificate-on-apache-redhat-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rapidsslonline.com\/blog\/install-ssl-certificate-on-apache-redhat-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install SSL Certificate on Apache Redhat Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SSL Certificate Installation on Apache Redhat Linux Server<\/h2>\n<p>The following guide contains a small amount of steps with easy and quick explanation to install your SSL certificate on Apache Redhat Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Apache Redhat Linux Server SSL Certificate Installation Guide<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step One<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce you\u2019ve got an approval of your certificate from the Certificate Authority (CA), you will have email, which will contain an encryption key valuables in hash algorithm such as;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\r\nMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExADALBgkqhkiG9w0BBwGggDCCAmowggHXAhAF\r\nUbM77e50M63v1Z2A\/5O5MA0GCSqGSIb3DQEOBAUAMF8xCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMSAw\r\n(.......)\r\nE+cFEpf0WForA+eRP6XraWw8rTN8102zGrcJgg4P6XVS4l39+l5aCEGGbauLP5W6\r\nK99c42ku3QrlX2+KeDi+xBG2cEIsdSiXeQS\/16S36ITclu4AADEAAAAAAAAA\r\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step Two<\/strong><br \/>\nCopy and paste above entire portion from <strong>&#8212;&#8211;BEGIN CERTIFICATE&#8212;&#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\nTo <strong>&#8212;&#8211;END CERTIFICATE&#8212;&#8211;<\/strong> into text file and rename that following text file to server.crt<\/p>\n<p>Now, you\u2019ll want to store the following file on the following directory, which you\u2019re going to keep all your certificate files;<\/p>\n<p>Example: \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/<\/p>\n<p>The above listed directory will also include multiple important files such as;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/   this is the directory path where SSL certificates should be stored\r\n\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.key\/   this is the path where the web server's private key is stored.\r\n\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ca-bundle\/   this is the path where the CA bundle file should be stored\r\n<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> It should be noted and it is recommended that the directory which contains the private key is only readable by the root user.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step Three<\/strong><br \/>\nNow, you should install the Certificate Authority Certificate as the second part of the installation process. Apache users can save time when installing the Certificate Authority (CA) certificates by using the \u201cbundle\u201d method.<\/p>\n<p>Within your Virtual settings for your website, you\u2019ll want to go into the httpd.conf file, and complete the following modifications listed below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Copy the PEM formatted Bundle CA certificate file to the directory path where CA-bundled files are already stored such as; <strong>\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Add the following command to the panel of SSL certificate in httpd.conf.<br \/>\nExample; SSLCACertificateFile \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/cachainpem.txt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> if the location and certificate file names are different then you\u2019ll have to rename the files and the path to reflect the right names on the Apache server.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the SSL section of your httpd.conf file should look along the lines of something similar to what is listed below;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>\r\nSSLCertificateFile \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/server.crt \r\nSSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.key\/server.key\r\nSSLCACertificateFile \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/ssl.crt\/cachainpem.txt\r\n<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step Four<\/strong><br \/>\nSave httpd.conf file and restart Apache<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSL Certificate Installation on Apache Redhat Linux Server The following guide contains a small amount of steps with easy and quick explanation to install your SSL certificate on Apache Redhat &hellip; <span class=\"d-flex justify-content-end\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rapidsslonline.com\/blog\/install-ssl-certificate-on-apache-redhat-linux\/\" class=\"btn btn-blue\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Install SSL Certificate on Apache Redhat 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