{"id":962,"date":"2016-12-29T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T07:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pheonixsolutions.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-12-29T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T07:16:26","slug":"install-ssl-certificate-nginx-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/install-ssl-certificate-nginx-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install SSL Certificate on Nginx Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nginx is the fastest webserver when compared to Apache. In this post, we are gonna explain on how to secure your website using SSL certificate on ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n

Assumption:<\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Ubuntu 16.04<\/li>\n
  2. Nginx webserver. If nginx is not installed, please follow the post to install nginx<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. You must have private key, certificate and intermediate CA(If a CSR is generated on your server then private key must have stored on the same machine)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Install SSL Certificate.<\/h4>\n

    This post assumes that nginx is installed on\u00a0\/etc\/nginx\u00a0<\/strong>directory. If nginx is installed on different directory then you may need to slightly adjust the commands which we are using. However, the process remains same.<\/p>\n

    Let’s create a directory to store SSL certificate. We are creating the directory on \/etc\/nginx\/ssl.<\/p>\n

    mkdir \/etc\/nginx\/ssl<\/code><\/p>\n

    Copy the private key to \/etc\/nginx\/ssl directory.<\/p>\n

    cp \/location\/domain.tld.key\u00a0\/etc\/nginx\/ssl<\/code><\/p>\n

    Copy the certificate, intermediate CA to server using winscp or ftp or anyother way to the server. In our example, we copied SSL ceritifcate to\u00a0\/usr\/local\/src<\/em> using filezilla<\/p>\n

    Integrate certificate and intermediate CA into single\u00a0pem\u00a0<\/strong>file using the below command.<\/p>\n

    cd \/usr\/local\/src<\/code><\/p>\n

    cat domain.tld.crt domain.tld.ca > \/etc\/nginx\/ssl\/domain.tld.pem<\/code><\/p>\n

    Open nginx configuration and append the following line after\u00a0ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;<\/strong><\/p>\n

    vi \/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf<\/code><\/p>\n

    ssl_ciphers EECDH+CHACHA20:EECDH+AES128:RSA+AES128:EECDH+AES256:RSA+AES256:EECDH+3DES:RSA+3DES:!MD5;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Open site configuration file and append the following lines. Assuming that there is one domain hosted on the server and the default configuration is\u00a0\/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/default.\u00a0<\/em> If there are multiple domains then we need to append the below lines on the corresponding domain configuration.<\/p>\n

    Ideally, the location of most of domain configuration will be on\u00a0\/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled.\u00a0<\/em>If the installation path is different then you need to select appropriate path.<\/p>\n

    vi \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/default<\/code><\/p>\n

    server {
    \nlisten 443 ssl http2 default_server;
    \nlisten [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;<\/p>\n

    root \/var\/www\/html<\/p>\n

    ssl_certificate \/etc\/nginx\/ssl\/domain.tld.pem;<\/span>
    \n ssl_certificate_key \/etc\/nginx\/ssl\/domain.tld.key;<\/span><\/p>\n

    index index.php index.html index.htm<\/p>\n

    server_name \u00a0_;<\/p>\n

    location \/ {
    \ntry_files $uri $uri\/ \/index.php?$args;
    \n}<\/p>\n

    }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This is a minimum configuration which are required to install SSL certificate.<\/p>\n

    Check for any nginx syntax error.<\/p>\n

    nginx -t<\/code><\/p>\n

    Once we confirm everything looks good, restart nginx service.<\/p>\n

    systemctl restart nginx<\/code><\/p>\n

    Verification:<\/h5>\n

    Use thirdparty websites to verify the SSL certificates.<\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/analyze.html?d=domain.tld<\/span>&latest<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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