Manually configuring SSL Certificates

Getting the Certificates :

1. Go to SSLforFree.
2. Enter your website link to create SSL certificate.
3. Verify your ownership of website.
4. Download Certificates.zip.
5. Upload ZIP to your hosting instance.

Configuring SSL :

1. Extract ZIP.
2. Move certificate.crt file to /etc/pki/tls/certs/
3. Move private.key to /etc/pki/tls/private/
4. Now change configuration in ssl.conf $ sudo /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
5. Find These lines and change accordingly :
   1. SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/certificate.crt
   2. SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/private.key
   3. SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/ca-crt.pem

Now Restart apache server and try opening your website with https enabled.

This method has some issues for mobile Certification and show insecure origin for mobile users. So I prefer to not go this way for adding SSL to your website. This was just my trial and error approach for installing the certificate.

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