SETUP SECTIGO POSITIVE SSL WILDCARD DV

 

Step 1: after received email with the certificate information has been issued, you will have a zip file. Extract it, you will have files:

Chain_RootCA_Bundle.crt, ChainCA1.crt, ChainCA2.crt, RootCA.crt example_cert.pem

Step 2: upload them to server. Run below command to make certificates in one bundle file.

$ cat example_cert.pem Chain_RootCA_Bundle.crt > example.crt

                * Notes: sometime maybe have error with end of file content or line formating, you should be open example.crt to check again.

Step 3: create private key file. Copy private key content from email of SSL distributor, it begins with “-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----” and end with “-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----”. Save it to file example.key

Step 4: edit NGINX configuration file (by default it is file nginx.conf)

                ssl_certificate /root/ssl/example.crt;

                ssl_certificate_key /root/ssl/example.key;

Step 5: restart NGINX