How to generate and install an SSL certificate on Linode?
for one of my clients' domains I am building a website in wordpress and I need an SSL certificate for the same. I am going to get a free SSL certificate from StartSSL (
Do I need a new dedicated IP since I already have one SSL certificate installed? If so where can I get it and what is the price?
Also could anyone please point me to a tutorial as to how I might go about installing the certificate on Ubuntu 14 (x64)? The last time I installed the only other SSL certificate I have (on my main personal domain), it was part of a tutorial on how to install ISPConfig and that bit is too complicated as it includes a lot of other steps relative to ISPConfig installation. Is there a simpler, easier-to-follow resource that might help me?
thanks in advance
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In short however: No - you do not need a new IP for additional SSL certificates. Assuming you are using apache you can just load the SSL certificate under the Virtual Service directive. Example below:
DocumentRoot /var/www/site
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/wwwyoursitecom.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/wwwyoursitecom.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/DigiCertCA.crt
DocumentRoot /var/www/site2
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/wwwyoursite2com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/wwwyoursite2com.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/DigiCertCA.crt
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If you need to support clients that don't support SNI then you need something like "Subject Alternate Name" in the SSL cert.