How to attach my ssl certificate bought from bigrock to my wordpress website hosted on virtual machine on azure

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How to attach my ssl certificate bought from bigrock to my wordpress website hosted on virtual machine on azure

Abhinav Sharma 1

I am hosting my wordpress website on azure by using product from their marketplace wordpress by bitnami!!! I need to attach my ssl certificate to my website and my domain is already pointed to website through public ip address. My ssl certificate provider is Bigrock!! Please let me know the solution

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ajkuma 28,036 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Abhinav Sharma , Thanks for posting this question.

Looks like you have provisioned this resource/image from the Azure Marketplace:

On an Azure Virtual Machine, you would typically perform the exact same steps/process as you would on-premise; for app configuration (/adding SSL certificate).

To allow secure web traffic to reach your VM, open port 443 via NSG from the Internet.
Please refer this document for step-step instructions 'Tutorial: Secure a web server on a Linux virtual machine in Azure with TLS/SSL certificates stored in Key Vault' - Esp. Prepare and Generate certificate sections.
In your case -Bigrock certificate (generate .CER)

Also, see this document on Bitnami 'Enable HTTPS Support With Apache''

Copy your SSL certificate and certificate key file to the specified locations.
Once you have copied all the server certificate files, you may make them readable to root user/ and config.

Note: This response contains a reference to a third-party website. I’m just sharing this for your convenience, these websites are not managed by Microsoft.

ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-12-02T11:16:56.85+00:00

@Abhinav Sharma , Additional info:

Azure offers several ways to host websites: Azure App Service WebApps (PAAS solution), Virtual Machines (IAAS), Service Fabric, Azure Storage (for static website) and Azure Static Web Apps.

Only in case if you are interested to use App Service Certificate - You can create App Service Certificate and export a PFX copy of it and use it for other Azure services (Example Azure Virtual Machine) or outside of Azure. So, essentially the following is the process:

To configure TLS for an application, you first need to get a TLS/SSL certificate that has been signed by a Certificate Authority (CA), a trusted third party who issues certificates for this purpose. If you do not already have one, you need to obtain one from a company that sells TLS/SSL certificates.

Your application must be configured to use the certificate, and an HTTPS endpoint must be added.
Upload the certificate and then you could access the webapp using HTTPs.

Hope this helps!
Abhinav Sharma 1 Reputation point

2020-12-03T09:19:13.94+00:00

that process is little bit confusing!! i am trying a lot but not getting a way to instal nginx server on virtual machine
ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-12-04T16:35:08.123+00:00
@Abhinav Sharma , Sorry the steps in the article was confusing for you, to make it more clear, adding these additional steps:

Kindly let us know Azure Marketplace image you're leveraging:

If it's the Apache server,

Copy your SSL certificate and certificate key file to the specified locations on the VM using an FTP client.

Once you have copied all the server certificate files, you may make them readable by the root user .

Open port 443 on the Azure VM via NSG (Network Security Group).

Restart the the VM and then check.

Kindly check Bitnami tutorial for more details.

As mentioned, the steps on an Azure VM is similar to what you would perform on a on-premise machine.
ajkuma 28,036 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-12-04T16:54:29.73+00:00

@Abhinav Sharma , Just adding more info/options:

Option 1:
I understand you want to use the SSL certificate that you have purchased, in case you want consider leveraging the highlighted image from Azure Marketplace (which comes with Nginx and SSL):

Option 2: Instead of using a VM to host your WordPress site, you could create on Azure App Service along with your hosted DB server and attach the purchased SSL certificate.
Use the Azure Marketplace Template for WordPress on Linux This template also creates a database for your Web App based on your database provider choice.

https://azure.github.io/AppService/2017/04/16/WordPress-on-Web-app-for-Containers.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/configure-ssl-bindings#secure-a-custom-domain

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