COMODO PositiveSSL: Installing SSL certificates including intermediate (ca_bundle) certificate on nginx

Note: When placing your CSR inside the MY INTERSSL account, please choose server type "apache/mod_SSL" in case "nginx" isn't available as an option.

 

Example SSL configuration taken from nginx/conf/gitlab-http.conf


listen *:443 ssl;

server_name git.b-nm.at;
 
ssl_certificate /var/opt/gitlab/nginx/ssl/git.b-nm.at.crt.ca.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /var/opt/gitlab/nginx/ssl/git.b-nm.at.key;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;


Important: nginx only allows to configure one file for the SSL certificate chain. Therefore the two files 
 
your_domain_com.crt
 
and
 

your_domain_com.ca_bundle


have to be copied together with a text editor in correct order. The combined certificate chain can then be used with nginx "ssl_certificate" option.

 


ssl_certificate example for PositiveSSL:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
.
.
.
. **** CONTENTS OF YOUR SSL ZERTIFICATE (Your_Domain_com.crt) *****
.
.
.
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIGEzCCA/ugAwIBAgIQfVtRJrR2uhHbdBYLvFMNpzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQwFADCB
iDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAgTCk5ldyBKZXJzZXkxFDASBgNVBAcTC0pl
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00u/I5sUKUErmgQfky3xxzlIPK1aEn8=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIFdzCCBF+gAwIBAgIQE+oocFv07O0MNmMJgGFDNjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQwFADBv
MQswCQYDVQQGEwJTRTEUMBIGA1UEChMLQWRkVHJ1c3QgQUIxJjAkBgNVBAsTHUFk
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0fKtirOMxyHNwu8=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
 


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