![]() ![]() You can reach this dialog box by clicking on the "Use a Real Cert" button. WebMon will help you generate the Certificate Request that is needed by a CA, below. Once you have an idea of how your web site might work with SSL on, you might want to get a real "live" cert from a Certification Authority (CA) like RapidSSL. Then select the "SSL" and "Use a test certificate" options and hit Configure Web Server, and you will be able to access the web server by its domain name over SSL. This is important because three things must line up for SSL to work properly - the ServerName parameter, as set by WebMon in the Apache config file, the certificate itself, and the machine's DNS-resolved domain name - all these must agree on the same value. Then make sure to create the test cert.Īlso, make sure that your server "knows" itself by that name, i.e., it is configured to access a DNS Server where a lookup on that domain name will resolve to itself. ![]() This option can be easily turned on with the use of a test cert that WebMon can help you generate (the "Create a Test Cert" button).įirst, make sure that the domain name that you're using to access the server is entered into the Domain Name field into the first column of the first record in the list of domains hosted by your web server (the main domain), like, above. ![]()
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