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Create GPG Keys

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:30:29 +0000

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Introuction

GPG keys are used for symmetric key encryption. GnuPG is the most common tool to create such keys.

Nginx SSL website

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:54:04 +0000

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Introduction

This best practice shows you the most advanced SSL configurations for your Nginx website. For productive usage it’s recommended to use only public-signed certificates.

Convert SSL certificates

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:01:50 +0000

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Requirements

Get a free verified SSL certificate from StartSSL (optional)

Instructions

When buying a certificate from you CA (Certification Authority) e.g. a wildcard certificate for *.example.org, you have to convert this file to different formats in order to use them with your webserver installation.

Apache vHost with SSL Certicate converted from .pfx Export file

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:03:40 +0000

This is an simple example for an Apache vHost SSL vHost configuration:

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/certificate.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/keyfile.key
</VirtualHost>