After you purchase an SSL certificate in the Certificate Management Service console and the certificate is issued, you can download the certificate to your computer and install the certificate based on your business requirements. You can install an Alibaba Cloud SSL certificate on a web server.
Prerequisites
Installation scenarios
Scenario | Description | Process overview |
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Installation on a web server | Install a certificate on a web server and enable HTTPS listening to implement HTTPS
communication between the server and clients.
Different types of web servers support different formats of certificate files. To facilitate certificate installation, Certificate Management Service provides certificate packages that are suitable for mainstream web servers, such as NGINX, Spring Boot, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, and Internet Information Services (IIS) servers. You can download and use the packages without the need to convert the formats of certificate files. |
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Download a certificate to your computer
Install the certificate on your web server
After you download the certificate to your computer, you must upload the certificate to your web server and modify the server settings for the certificate to take effect.
Web server type | Certificate installation method |
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NGINX and Tengine | Install SSL certificates on NGINX servers or Tengine servers |
Spring Boot | Enable HTTPS on Spring Boot |
Apache Tomcat 7 and earlier | |
Apache Tomcat 8 and later | Install SSL certificates on Tomcat 8.5 or 9.0 servers that run CentOS |
Apache HTTPD | Install SSL certificates on Apache servers |
Apache 2 | Deploy SSL certificates on Apache 2 servers that run Ubuntu |
IIS | Install SSL certificates on IIS servers |
Jetty | Install SSL certificates on Jetty servers |
GlassFish | Install SSL certificates on GlassFish servers |