Installing SSL

I have a VPS and I'm looking to install SSL on the server. My host wants to charge me $100/hour for them to install it, but I don't have that kind of money to spend.

If anyone knows of any good websites with tutorials, or can write a set of instructions for me to follow that would be awesome.

 

Do you have any control panel or it must be installed trough ssh?

 

My VPS is running on WHM 11.15.0 cPanel 11.17.0-S19434

 

You meant "WHM 11.15.0 cPanel 11.17.0-S19434" is running on your VPS...

 

Can anyone help me?

 

Check this http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/Install_an_SSL_Certificate_and_Setup_the_Domain.htm

 

At $100 per hour that should cost you about $10.

Make sure mod_ssl.so is in your modules directory, uncomment the line in your httpd.conf that says:

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

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and restart Apache.

Mod SSL is now installed but there's a bit more to do before it works.

Create a key with openssl then create a certificate request using openssl and the key you just created. Lastly, you can either sign it yourself (also with openssl) or send it to a CA (like GeoTrust or Verisign) and have them sign it for you. If this is a commercial website I would go for the CA option because you don't want to annoy your customers with warning messages about self-signed certificates.

Once you have the actual certificate, you will need to create a new vhost listening on port 443 with SSL configured in it and pointing to your certificate file.

I'm going to write up a more detailed tutorial soon on my website so when I'm done with that I'll link to it from here. I won't be writing about cPanel or VPS or anything like that but it shouldn't be hard to translate my instructions to their cPanel equivalents.

 

Why dont you try http://www.platinumservermanagement.com/

They will install everything you need for your VPS for $29 per month. Unlimited hours works.

Vivek

 

I've written a simple tutorial of how to install an SSL Certificate in cPanel after the private key has been generated.

http://www.sslshopper.com/cpanel-whm-ssl-installation-instructions.html

The functions in cPanel can be setup differently though so you may need set it up manually with OpenSSL and Apache like Ladadadada described.

 

Hello adultuserbars,

If you had not installed it on your vps until now you can contact me, I can help you to install it for free. Hope you have the necessary information like private key, exact domain name and a dedicated IP.
Now-a-days most of the host do not charge you for the installation

Thank you.