Configure AlphaSSL on nginx web server

This post is mainly for me :) I configure SSL on nginx so many times and recommend the clients to get the cheapest one as much as possible.

Usually I use let’s encrypt for the servers/services can renew it automatically. If auto renewal can’t be done for the internal services, then we need to buy an SSL.

Configure AlphaSSL on nginx web server

1- Create CA bundle file

# cat yourdomain.crt intermadiate-cert.crt root.pem > /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.pem

yourdomain.crt is the crt you got from SSL provider via email

intermadiate-cert.crt is SHA-256 - Orders March 31, 2014 and After at https://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.html

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIETTCCAzWgAwIBAgILBAAAAAABRE7wNjEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAwVzELMAkG
A1UEBhMCQkUxGTAXBgNVBAoTEEdsb2JhbFNpZ24gbnYtc2ExEDAOBgNVBAsTB1Jv
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MTh89N1SyvNTBCVXVmaU6Avu5gMUTu79bZRknl7OedSyps9AsUSoPocZXun4IRZZ
Uw== 
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

root.pem from https://www.alphassl.com/support/roots/root.pem

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDdTCCAl2gAwIBAgILBAAAAAABFUtaw5QwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwVzELMAkG
A1UEBhMCQkUxGTAXBgNVBAoTEEdsb2JhbFNpZ24gbnYtc2ExEDAOBgNVBAsTB1Jv
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HMUfpIBvFSDJ3gyICh3WZlXi/EjJKSZp4A==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

2- Configure nginx conf like below

ssl_certificate  /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.pem;
ssl_certificate_key  /etc/ssl/star_mydomain.key ;

then restart nginx