Problem Statement
Recently when a Linux monitoring script using CURL to monitor a https URL broke when migrated to a VM from Oracle Linux v6.7 to v6.9. This post i will try to explain the root cause of the issue and solution to fix the issue.
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Tag: ssl
If you nead, automated certificate expiration checks on CentOS Linux
One important part of using SSL is to keep track of expiration dates on certificates. Most client software will rightfully refuse to connect to a server that presents an expired certificate, resulting in interrupted services. For CentOS and other RHEL based distributions, the crypto-utils package contains a very useful utility called certwatch, which can be used to detect whether a certificate will expire in the near future. Read More
How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7
Introduction
TLS, or “transport layer security”, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for “secure sockets layer”, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic safely between the server and the client without the concern that the messages will be intercepted and read by an outside party. The certificate system also assists users in verifying the identity of the sites that they are connecting with.
In this guide, we will show you how to set up a self-signed SSL certificate for use with an Apache web server on a CentOS 7 VPS. A self-signed certificate will not validate the identity of your server, since it is not signed by a trusted certificate authorities, but it will allow you to encrypt communications between your server and your visitors.