More minor edits to hopefully improve clarity.

Thomas Willingham 2013-05-16 16:27:25 -07:00
parent 025178b0b7
commit aa464da3b5

@ -106,11 +106,13 @@ Just restart Apache when you're done, whichever way you decide to do it.
Follow the above instructions to get your free certificate. But instead of following the Apache installation instructions, do this:
Get your certificated from the StartSSL "Toolbox". Save it as ssl.cert, and upload it. It doesn't matter where to, as long as Nginx can find it. Some people use ``/home/randomlettersandnumbers`` to keep it in out of paranoia, but you can put it anywhere, so we'll call it ``/foo/bar``.
Get your certificate from the StartSSL "Toolbox". Save it as ssl.cert, and upload it. It doesn't matter where to, as long as Nginx can find it. Some people use ``/home/randomlettersandnumbers`` to keep it in out of paranoia, but you can put it anywhere, so we'll call it ``/foo/bar``.
You can remove the password if you like. This is probably bad practice, but if you don't, you'll have to enter the password every time you restart nginx. To remove it:
Upload your private key to the same place. If you intend to remove the password from the key, save it as sslwithpass.key. If you do not intend to remove the password, save it as ssl.key
``openssl rsa -in ssl.key-pass -out ssl.key``
Removing the password is probably bad practice, but if you don't, you'll have to enter the password every time you restart nginx. To remove it:
``openssl rsa -in sslwithpass.key -out ssl.key``
Now, grab the helper certificate: