Install SSL Certificate on NGINX / Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (Digital Ocean)

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I have been trying to install the SSL certificate on my droplet on Digital Ocean. This droplet is running NGINX / Ubuntu 16.04 x64.

I don't have any cPanel just a terminal with SSH connection.

I have also talked to the Digital Ocean's support guy and he shared 2 tutorials with me which I have tried. But following those tutorials end up breaking my site.

Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

I have edit the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and added the server block like this in http block:

server {
         listen 443 ssl;
         server_name www.example.com;
         ssl_certificate /home/user/example/www.example.com.crt;
         ssl_certificate_key /home/user/example/www.example.com.key;
}

What I'm doing wrong and what is the right way?

I'm confused which file to edit.

I have:

1) /etc/ngix/ngix.conf

2) /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

3) /etc/nginx/sites-available/defaultu

4) /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

5) /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com

Please I need help...

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1 Answers

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votes

More info is needed as to where you are at. Have you got the certificates onto the droplet yet? If not and you are using a Windows machine to connect via SSH to the droplet, then I would recommend downloading WinSCP as you can use that to transfer the certificates. If you let me know how far you are, I can walk you through the process. Also, you have no listen directives in your server blocks such as:

listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /path to .crt or .pem file;
ssl_certificate_key /path to .key file;