InstantSSL's certificate no different than a self signed certificate under Nginx with an IP accessed address
- by Absolute0
I ordered an ssl certificate from InstantSSL and got the following pair of files:
my_ip.ca-bundle, my_ip.crt
I also previously generated my own key and crt files using openssl.
I concatenated all the crt files:
cat my_previously_generted.crt my_ip.ca_bundle my_ip.crt chained.crt
And configured nginx as follows:
server {
...
listen 443;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /home/dmsf/csr/chained.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/dmsf/csr/csr.nopass.key;
...
}
I don't have a domain name as per the clients request.
When I open the browser with https://my_ip
chrome gives me this error:
The site's security certificate is not trusted!
You attempted to reach my_ip, but the server presented a certificate issued by an entity that is not trusted by your computer's operating system. This may mean that the server has generated its own security credentials, which Google Chrome cannot rely on for identity information, or an attacker may be trying to intercept your communications.
You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.
