Installing purchased SSL Certificate in Webmin

Howdy -- normally, when you're setting up a new SSL Cert -- I'd recommend enabling the "SSL" feature for a given domain in Edit Virtual Server -> Enabled Features.

Then, you can go into Manage SSL Certificate, where you can create the CSR, as well as copy the SSL cert to various services running on your server. That's the simplest way of setting up a SSL certificate.

However, working within the area you're using now -- you wouldn't want to change the Private Key -- what they sent you is a new "Certificate file". You'd want to replace the current Certificate with the new SSL certificate that they sent you.

Whenever you generated a CSR, it generated a new private key at the same time -- you'd want to make sure you're using the private key that Webmin generated for you.

Yup, I completely understand! The setup you're working on is a good one, and is how we'd recommend setting things up if you can afford a commercial SSL certificate.

As far as how to get all that to work -- you could edit the SSL Certificate File in the Webmin area as mentioned above. The SSL certificate you were sent would replace the existing Certificate File -- and you'd just need to make sure the key that Webmin regenerated recently is what's being used there now.

That said, and for future reference -- if you're looking to add an SSL cert into Webmin, we'd usually suggest setting up a domain in Virtualmin for that, and managing the SSL via it.

The advantage of that, is that whatever domain folks use to access Webmin -- that also tends to be what's used for accessing Usermin, Postfix, and Dovecot.

Virtualmin makes it simple to secure those other services with that same SSL certificate, by offering a means to copy the SSL cert to other services.

Yeah, with a system using "id1007.xyz.domain.tld" as the hostname -- you can use a name such as "secure.domain.tld" for the SSL cert (or whatever other name you prefer -- but that's a nice generic one that makes sense for all services).

If you create a Virtual Server (or an alias) named secure.domain.tld, and generate your SSL cert within it -- you could then click the "Copy to N" buttons in Server Configuration -> Manage SSL Certificate, which will setup that secure.domain.tld SSL certificate within your various services.

You could then have your customers access secure.domain.tld for all the services you mentioned -- Virtualmin, Usermin, IMAP, and SMTP.

If you have any questions on any of that, please feel free to let us know!

I'm not entirely certain, unfortunately... I've never tried to generate an SSL cert via Webmin :-) If that's not working for you, we may need to get Jamie's input on that.

That said, I'd be curious about two things... one, what does this output:

ls /etc/webmin/miniserv*

And also -- the error you mentioned above says this:

"The SSL private key file /etc/webmin/miniserv.cert"

That doesn't sound correct though -- it's talking about the private key, but the file it's pointing to is the SSL certificate.

Are you pretty sure that the SSL cert and private key fields are pointing to the correct files?

I haven't run into that particular error before, though a little Googling shows some other Firefox users who have run into that. Which Firefox version are you using?

Out of curiosity, if you use a browser other than Firefox, do you see a similar error?

Is there any chance you could provide the URL to your Webmin install so that I can try and reproduce that error?

Ok, sounds like this is fixed then.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.