How do I install a purchased SSL certificate?

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Hi People,

A quick question.
the following discourse thread mentions

Get a signed cert and key and place them in the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/ssl/ folder

Private key is:
/var/discourse/shared/standalone/ssl/ssl.key

Cert is
/var/discourse/shared/standalone/ssl/ssl.crt

What exactly it means, how to upload the cert and key ??? is there any upload utility ?? Please help me solve this situation§

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There is no upload utility in particular.

You can use winSCP or Filezilla to transfer your certificate & key to your server.

Rename the files as ssl.crt and ssl.key

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If you run

./discourse-setup

it will prompt you for an email address and give you a free cert from Let’s Encrypt. That’s probably what you want to do.

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I already purchased SSL from uniregitry and now learning how to configure it for discourse forum

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You can Google scp YOUR_OS and try to figure out how to move the files and have to do it again every time the certificate expires, or run one command that will give you a free certificate forever.

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