Configuring Apache to use SSL: Difference between revisions

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==Signed Certificate== <!--T:9-->
==Signed Certificate== <!--T:9-->
Having a certificate signed by a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority Certificate Authority] (CA) allows visitors of the site to verify by a third party (the CA) that the website is the expected website, avoiding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack man-in-the-middle-attacks]. Many CAs require a yearly fee, one CA which does not is the [https://letsencrypt.org/ let's encrypt] CA. [https://certbot.eff.org/ Certbot] is a tool for automatically creating and renewing an SSL certificate signed by the let's encrypt CA and automatically configures your web-server to use the SSL certificate. See the [https://certbot.eff.org/docs/ certbot docs] website for instructions on using certbot.
Having a certificate signed by a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority Certificate Authority] (CA) allows visitors of the site to verify by a third party (the CA) that the website is the expected website, avoiding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack man-in-the-middle-attacks]. Many CAs require a yearly fee; one CA which does not is the [https://letsencrypt.org/ let's encrypt] CA. [https://certbot.eff.org/ Certbot] is a tool for automatically creating and renewing an SSL certificate signed by the let's encrypt CA and automatically configures your web-server to use the SSL certificate. See the [https://certbot.eff.org/docs/ certbot docs] website for instructions on using certbot.


==Self-Signed Certificate== <!--T:10-->
==Self-Signed Certificate== <!--T:10-->
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