How to configure your Godaddy SSL certificate with NGINX server on AWS EC2 Instance.

This tutorial describes the process for How to configure/Install your Godaddy SSL certificate with NGINX server on AWS EC2 Instance.

• Login to your server.
• Go to below directory :

>$ cd /usr/share/ssl/certs/yourdomain.com/ 
If directory is not present you can create new one.

• Copy below command and replace your-certificate-name.csr and your-certificate-name.key and yourdomain.com

>$ openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -out your-certificate-name.csr -keyout your-certificate-name.key -subj "/C=IT/ST=Lombardia/L=Como/O=Batoc67 srl/CN=yourdomain.com"

• Run below command and copy the whole content given by it. Replace your-certificate-name.csr

>$ cat your-certificate-name.csr

• Paste the content of csr into godady ssl manager in Certificate Signing Request (CSR).
• After some time it will allow you to download the certificate. Select Other from Dropdown and download.
• Now extract .zip file and put both the file on server at this path

/usr/share/ssl/certs/yourdomain.com/

• Run below command

>$ cat your-ssl.crt your-ssl-bundle.crt > your-domain.chained.crt

• Add below in your server blog of NGINX for SSL.

ssl_certificate "/usr/share/ssl/certs/yourdomain.com/yourdomain.chained.crt";
ssl_certificate_key "/usr/share/ssl/certs/yourdomain.com/yourdomain.key";

• Save your file.
• Restart nginx service.

>$ sudo service nginx restart

• Make sure port 443 is open for all under security group in EC2 consle.
• Check your configuration with below link. https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html?#hostname=yourdomain.com

By Nitish Thakrar