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I have a website serving several pages that can be reachable via HTTP.

How can I make these sites available via standard HTTPS? (not self-signed). What are the steps? (go to a CA, and then?)

Can someone please describe the full process in steps?

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This probably belongs on serverfault.com – bitmask Jan 27 '12 at 15:01
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@bitmask I'd say superuser.com – Karlson Jan 27 '12 at 15:16
I'm having trouble deciding if this is on-topic. I think it'll mostly be Apache configuration stuff, which is – Michael Mrozek♦ Jan 27 '12 at 15:22
Not superuser. Since the process to accomplish this is OS-agnostic, it would probably go on serverfault, even if the commands are Unix/Linux. – Kevin M Jan 27 '12 at 15:24
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@MichaelMrozek: my personal opinion is: too broad. To be answered correctly, you'd need to explain the steps to create the right type of key-pair and CSR (not Unix/Linux-specific), explain what sort of documents CAs expect in addition to the CSR (could vary widely by CA/country/jurisdiction, not Unix/linux-related either). Then you need to go through the whole apache setup, including virtual hosts, algorithm selection/restriction, redirects maybe, ... which is again (mainly) OS agnostic. I don't think it would stay open at serverfault. – Mat Jan 27 '12 at 17:00
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There are many tutorials for apache on how to do this. This is one of them.

Here is another one

One thing that you would change if you already have a certificate generated you would copy the certificate files to appropriate locations vs. generating them yourself.

If you are not using apache please post the webserver you're using.

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i am using apache – LanceBaynes Jan 27 '12 at 14:41
@LanceBaynes I modified the answer to fit your case better. – Karlson Jan 27 '12 at 14:45
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While this question is a year old, many CA will provide tools and tutorials to help with this. See RapidSSL - their knowledgebase covers pretty much all common setups.

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