SSL in DirectAdmin with chain/intermediate certificates

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texas1emt

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I recently ordered and installed DA, and I'm pretty darned pleased with it. However, I'm unable to use my (cheap) GoDaddy SSL certificate with DA since the certificate has an intermediate certificate that is required.

I tried appending the intermediate to the end of the certificate file and using that with the 'cacert' directive in the directadmin.conf - I still get the non-trusted certificate error. I also tried using stunnel, but that caused problems with logging into DA (although it corrected the certificate issue!).

Just to be clear, I'm talking about using an SSL cert to connect to the DA panel itself, not an individual website on the server. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!
 
I have exactly the same problem. After the transfer to a new server. I can't get the CA root (cacert) Certificate to work. I need some help.

Here are my current configuration:

<VirtualHost 87.117.208.39:443>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
SSLCACertificateFile /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/domains/mydomain.co.za.cacert

etc...
</VirtualHost>

For some reason my Intermediate ( CA ) Certificate does not work. My browser keeps on telling me that the site is not trusted..... but the cert is valid and secure...

I have contacted the SSL provider and they sent me exactly the same cert again.

Maybe a permission problem ?
 
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I FOUND THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM.

I have set the secure domain to the default domain under the admin user.

And then added the CA path to the main httpd.conf file.
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

service httpd restart

WHOOOO!!
 
Any senior member can help us please? How do we use godaddy's ssl to enable ssl in directadmin itself?

Need help!
 
Do exactly what? Switching to Plesk (at a much higher cost) seems a bit drastic as opposed to simply buying a low-cost Certificate without an CA Certificate.http://www.site-helper.com/ssl.html

Are you simply trying to install a GoDaddy Certificate for a domain hosted in DirectAdmin? If so, all the instructions you need to follow are here. I've done this and it does work.

Jeff
 
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