Certificate error while visiting myip:2087 and myip:2083 : please help a vps newbie

[trucmuche]

Hello !

I'm a VPS newbie and I'm new under WHM&CPanel. I just received the access codes to my brand new VPS and when I visit https://93.221.46.36:2087 or :2083 (*), I get a warning telling me that the certificate is invalid.

I read around and found that I could make in WHM a self-signed SSL certificate but I read that this solution wouldn't hide definitely this warning message. Thus it's not a real good solution.

I understood that the real solution would be to buy a SSL certificate from a certificate authority.
Can I use STARTSSL to generate a valid certificate (one-year validity but I could renew it each year) ? This is free (and I don't have much money to spend to just make a message disappear)...

Could you help me and tell me if this is a solution ?

Thank you very much for your help !!

Trucmuche

(*) I modified my real IP address ;-)

 

[dalem]

1. you need to force ports 2083, 2087. & 2096 to redirect to the hostname in tweak settings. IP address cant be certified by a CA
2. the only way you are going to get rid of the error is to buy a certificate there is no way around it
"StartSSL are Ok for things like internal use and non-customer use. They're a bit sketchy with some browsers and mobile devices

 

[trucmuche]

Thank you very much for your answer !!

I only want to avoid the warning message to my "customers" (which are not but this is not the topic here ;-)) when they will have to log into their CPanel frontend...

I don't care about mobile devices and my "customers" only use browsers that StartSSL supports, I checked that.

Could I simply get a certificate with StartSSL for the domain where WHM is installed ("hosting.mydomain.com") and install it inside WHM ? If I do this, will it work for :2087 (WHM) AND :2083 ports (CPanel) ?

Thanks again !!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Yes, assuming you have root access, you can install the certificate for your services such as cPanel/WHM via:

"WHM Home » Service Configuration » Manage Service SSL Certificates"

Note that you will still see a browser warning if you are not installing a certificate that's signed and considered trusted by the browser (StartSSL may not show up as trusted).

Thank you.

 

[PCZero]

Michael I am going through this exact process installing my RapidSSL Cert for the four services listed in the Manage Service SSL Certificates section of WHM. For some reason WHM is now stalled at the 'Installing' screen (main frame greyed out with the Installing box centered over it). How do I resolve this and get the Cert installed?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Have you tried installing it again after the first attempt failed?

Thank you.