SSL certificate

Question

I'm new to the subject, I would like to use an SSL certificate from another certification company within Azure so I can access a web application that I have running within an Azure VM, https://xpto.meudominio.com.br, I don't know how do and whether I can use an external certificate or whether I have to use the certificate issued directly by Microsoft.

Any help will be appreciated.

thanks

Answer 1

You can use any third-party certificate.

follow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/tutorial-secure-web-server or https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/tutorial-secure-web-server

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Marcin

Answer 2

Hello Ação Engenharia,

Thank you for posting your query here!

Adding on to the previous response, Azure supports the use of SSL certificates from external certification authorities (CAs).

You can use an SSL certificate from another certification company. Here are the general steps to do so:

· Export the SSL certificate from your external account.

· Copy the .pfx file to your Azure VM.

· Install the SSL certificate on your VM.

Further details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78073585/i-have-ssl-on-godaddy-and-website-hosted-on-azure-vm-how-to-install-ssl-on-azur

Also, you can also use the certificate in different ways:

· Directly on your VM’s Webserver: You can add your certificate into your VM Webserver such as Nginx, Apache, etc.

· Azure Application Gateway: You can create an Azure Application Gateway and then add your certificate to do an SSL-Offload. This means that the certificate is installed into your Azure Application Gateway, and you have your VM as a backend server.

For a more detailed guide, you can refer to the tutorials for securing a web server with TLS/SSL certificates on Linux and Windows VMs.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if the issue persists or if you have any other questions.

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