Debian Apache2 and SSL
- by Topher Fangio
Hello all,
I recently took over a server that is using Apache2 with SSL. I have setup a new server to which I am migrating all of the old websites so that we can more easily scale (it's a cloud server) and so that I can set everything up correctly (or at least with some sort of convention).
I have read quite a few articles on setting up Apache2 and SSL with virtual hosts, but I'm a bit confused because all of the examples show three files and I only seem to have two. To compound the problem, they are all named differently (do the file extensions actually make a difference?).
The examples show something to this effect:
<VirtualHost X.X.X.X:443>
ServerAlias something.mydomain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/project/client/site
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain-cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/mydomain-key.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain-ca.crt
</VirtualHost>
However, the files I have are:
_.mydomain.com.crt
gd_bundle.crt
It is a wildcard certificate that we purchased through GoDaddy I believe. I believe that the first file is the actual certificate file and the gd_bundle.crt is the chain file, but that leaves me without a key file. There is also a random mydomain.csr file lying around on the old server, but it wasn't one of the files bundled with the download from GoDaddy, so I'm not really sure as to what it is.
Any help in figuring out what I need to do would be greatly appreciated. I am software developer, so I know my way around computers, but I have only dabbled in server setup/maintenance.
Much Thanks!
