My Web Server SSL Certificate has a passphrase, how do I install it?

A Web Server SSL Certificate with a passphrase is not suitable for Statseeker as every time the Statseeker server is rebooted Apache will need to be manually started.

To remove the passphrase from the certificate:

1. Copy the certificate on to the Statseeker host
2. Go to the command line and run the following command in the directory where the certificate key file was placed :
   openssl rsa -in <server>.key> -out <server_nopass>.key
   
   This command will ask for the passphrase and then output a new file as per above without a passphrase.

The way the certificate is installed is by putting the certificate files into the directory /home/system/etc

Suggested procedure:

1. Put the new certificate files in the to /home/system/etc/ssl_new directory with this year in their file names.
   Use the <server_nopass>.key file for this.
   e.g.
   /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<this year>.crt
   /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<thisyear>.key
2. Then backup the existing ssl.key and ssl.cert in /home/system/etc to the same directory.
   e.g.
   cp -p /home/system/etc/ssl.key /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<last-year>.crt
   cp -p /home/system/etc/ssl.cert /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<last-year>.key
3. Then remove the existing files from the /home/system/etc directory :
   rm -i /home/system/etc/ssl.key
   rm -i / home/system/etc/ssl.crt
4. Then copy the new files in to the /home/system/etc directory:
   cp -p /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<year>.key /home/system/etc/ssl.key
   cp -p /home/system/etc/ssl_new/ssl_<year>.crt /home/system/etc/ssl.crt
5. Then as the root user restart Apache:
   service apache24 restart
6. Check Apache is running:
   service apache24 status
7. Then go to the Statseeker Administration GUI and on the "Web Server Configuration" page check the status of the certificate.