• Article Type: General
• Product: MetaLib
• Product Version: 3

Description:
I've just renewed my httpd/ssl/wotsit certificate with GlobalSign and put it in the right place (SSLconf/conf) as specified by the configuration under #..# SSL stuff #..# in httpsd.conf (and indeed made a change in httpd.conf to bar access to /tmp in htdocs re recent list discussion).

To apply the certificate, is it sufficient just to restart apache (cd $httpd_root/bin -> su -> <pswd> -> ./apachectl restart -> exit) or do I have to restart SSL as well?

Resolution:
As long as the certificate name is the same as the old one, no configurations need to be changed. If the name is different, one needs to update the files $httpd_root/conf/ssl.conf and $httpd_root/conf/ssl.conf.tml to point to the current certificates.

Afterwards, restart apache with a root user using apachectl_auto.

Security, ssl, certificates, Apache

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013