This guide explains how to install an SSL certificate on a Debian server with Apache. How to generate CSR for a Debian server? Before installation, your first task is to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) code. This is the standard procedure when applying for an SSL Certificate. The CSR contains relevant details about your […]
This guide gives you step-by-step instructions on how to install an SSL certificate in cPanel. cPanel is one of the most widely used web hosting control panels, and the SSL installation is straightforward even without advanced technical skills.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to install an SSL certificate on CentOS and its RHEL-family successors (AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and CentOS Stream) using the Apache httpd web server.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install an SSL certificate in AWS (Amazon Web Services). On AWS you do not install a certificate on a single server the way you would with Apache or Nginx. Instead, you import the certificate once into a certificate store, then attach it to a managed service (a […]
In this guide, you will learn how to install an SSL certificate on Apache, step by step. The instructions apply to Apache 2.4, the current stable release line.
Thunderbird has supported S/MIME for as long as it has existed, and it handles it differently from Outlook in one way that determines everything else: it keeps its own certificate store. Nothing you install into Windows, macOS or your Linux keyring will show up in Thunderbird, and nothing you import into Thunderbird appears anywhere else. […]
An S/MIME certificate lets you digitally sign your emails, so recipients can tell the message really came from you and was not altered, and encrypt them, so only the intended recipient can read them. It is an email certificate, not the SSL/TLS certificate that secures a website, and the two are not interchangeable even though […]
Certificates pile up in Windows. A test certificate from a project that ended, a corporate root left behind by software you uninstalled, an expired certificate on a web server, a client certificate that no longer authenticates anything. Removing them is straightforward once you know two things: which of the several certificate stores it is actually […]
A PFX file is how Windows moves a certificate and its private key together, as one password-protected file. You export one when you are migrating a site to a new server, building a load-balanced pair, or taking a backup before a renewal. You import one when the certificate was issued somewhere else and has to […]
Switching a site from HTTP to HTTPS means installing an SSL certificate on your server, pointing your site at its https URLs, and redirecting the old http ones so nothing is left behind. The work itself takes an afternoon on most sites. Below is the whole process in six steps, plus where the setting lives […]
