SSD Nodes: 1 Click-Applications’ Primer Document


In this article
- Understanding our 1CAs built-in Self-Signed Certificates
- Transforming your Self-Signed to a CA certificate
- Adding a hostname to your server? (Changing IP to hostname)
Understanding built-in Self-Signed Certificates
Please check our article that explains how our built-in self-signed certificates create safer experiences for your customers, build more trust and improve conversions, protecting both customers and internal data. Moreover, we explain pros and cons of self-signed vs CA certificates; the latter are created, signed, and issued by a third party called a certificate authority (CA). Check more details in our blog article: What are SSL Server Certificates and how do they protect my website?
Trying out your certificate
- Load your site in a browser by prefixing https:// to your website address. You would get a notification message, which is normal for a self-signed certificate.
- The browser is just warning you that it can’t verify the identity of the server, since the certificate is not signed by any of its known certificate authorities.
- Click “ Advanced” or “More information” depending on the browser, and choose to proceed. Below is an example from Google Chrome.




Transforming your Self-Signed to a CA certificate
CA certificates can either be procured from Let's Encrypt or from other CA authorities. Please check our special article discussing differences between Let's Encrypt & other CA-issued certificates, along with the essential information on how to procure both of these types. After you procure your certificate (let’s encrypt or other), please refer to the below, which describes installing the CA certificate on your web serverAPACHE WEB SERVER
- Edit apache’s default configuration file
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