{"id":3050,"date":"2020-04-23T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/blog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2020-04-24T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:23:27","slug":"setting-up-da-with-an-ssl-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/blog\/setting-up-da-with-an-ssl-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up DA with an SSL certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can switch DirectAdmin to use SSL instead of plain text. -> https instead of http on port 2222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating a Self-Signed Certificate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you do not have your own certificates, you&#8217;ll need to create your own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/usr\/bin\/openssl req -x509 -sha256 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cakey.pem -out \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cacert.pem -days 9000 -nodes<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">chown diradmin:diradmin \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cakey.pem<br>chmod 400 \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cakey.pem<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installing a Purchased Certificate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you already have your own certificate and key, then paste them into the following files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">certificate: &nbsp;\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cacert.pem<br>key: \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cakey.pem<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Edit the \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/directadmin.conf and set ssl=1 \u00a0(default is 0). \u00a0This tells DA to load the certificate and key and to use an SSL connection.<br>Ensure your directadmin.conf has the values set:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">cacert=\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cacert.pem\ncakey=\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/cakey.pembut can be changed as needed.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>DirectAdmin needs to be restarted after any changes to the directadmin.conf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you also have a CA Root Certificate, this can be specified by adding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">carootcert=\/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/carootcert.pem<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>into the \/usr\/local\/directadmin\/conf\/directadmin.conf file (won&#8217;t exist by default) and by pasting the contents of the caroot cert into that file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can switch DirectAdmin to use SSL instead of plain text. -> https instead of http on port 2222. 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