Security is an important topic for anything hosted online, and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is key when you have information that needs to be transferred securely between a client browsers and a web server. In the Windows Cloud VPS hosting world, this means managing the SSL settings within Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) – the standard Microsoft web services that are included with Windows Server. Everyone has heard the expression, when given lemons, make lemonade. In the IIS world, .crt and .key files are the equivalent of lemons since they can not be used in their current form to install an SSL certificate. This post will show you how to turn those files into lemonade or, more appropriately and useful, a pfx file. As IIS Administrators we find ourselves from time to time (well, in all honesty, pretty much yearly) having to support the renewal and implementation of SSL certificates. In a perfect world, this would be a seamless process. We, the administrators, would create and provide the certificate signing request (CSR) to the responsible purchasing party. The certificate would be purchased and we would be provided the certificate response file from the Certificate Authority (CA) for completing the certificate request and installing the certificate. This is not the way that things always happen. Sometimes we are provided text blobs of the certificate that look like this: —–BEGIN PRIVATE KEY—– MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKcwggSjAgEAAoIBAQC+MWFUhHn7RnDA TBDa/YEtz7yJSaQHJu0OvcfkLe67Dk3XmJlvlIR1ZSAi3VHEe0tZCbGLUH+QpMfZ /+CZ/jOqy/T2br0N1+Nz8pXTK2pyWCoWyEuTA1F/KimtJyuBglCXctrxWR4U/Bvg= —–END PRIVATE KEY—– —–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—– MIIFODCCBCCgAwIBAgIQAv9+bZ/eqYYHETW+Sh9SHzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADBzMQswCQYDVQQG EwJHQjEbMBkGA1UECBMSR3JlYXRlciBNYW5jaGVzdGVyMRAwDgYDVQQHEwdTYWxmb3JkMRowGAYD Wtw75qW8mqQXZfa+e7gaVwaQ70uuEuXXmxG6I00= —–END CERTIFICATE—– Disclaimer: These are not actual certificate or key blobs but are provided as examples only Or we…
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How to install PHP 7 (stable) on VestaCP server running on CentOS 7 with some test results of how VestaCP + PHP 7 can perform together serving WordPress site. For your information, PHP 7 has just been released and many rumors say it can perform multiple times faster than previous stable PHP version and also as fast as HHVM. This is the most anticipated PHP version ever bringing many new features, enhancements, and improved performance. Until the time I write this post, VestaCP is by default using PHP 5.4.x installed and running with web server (either Apache or Nginx). I’m not really sure why its developer still pack PHP 5.4 within VestaCP installation but as far as I know PHP 5.4 is the most popular stable version after 5.3 that many scripts, web apps and CMS are supported (can still run well with the PHP environment). As per PHP 7, there are still not enough information of how many CMS / scripts except WordPressand OwnCloud those are already PHP 7 compatible. So if you are planning to build a WordPress site with VestaCP, you can try this tutorial and feel the awesomeness of PHP 7. But I must also remind you that since VestaCP doesn’t include PHP 7 by default yet, so I recommend you to not using VestaCP + PHP 7 on production websites unless you are a sysadmin Ninja. However, with default Vesta setup (Nginx as proxy + Apache + PHP), this method still can work properly so it is safe if you’ll just want to host personal…
