Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Enabling HTTPS in your Nginx configuration

At this point, you should have received two files from your certificate authority: your site's certificate file (.crt), and an additional certificate file containing information relative to the certificate authority itself. These two files must be concatenated into one using the following command:

# cat your_site_certificate.crt certificate_authority.crt > example.com.crt 

The order is important: your site's certificate first, followed by your CA's certificate. Now that this is done, two files are required to finalize your Nginx configuration:

• Your private key file generated during the first step (example.com.key)
• The certificate file we generated just now (example.com.crt)

Store them in a secure ...