Apache Webserver for Webmin

[Derek Maciel]

Thanks Avi, that cleared up a lot.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Avi Greenbury
<avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Derek Maciel wrote:
>
>> I'm asking this because whenever I browse to a Webmin installation, no
>> matter what server it's installed on or whatever computer I'm
>> accessing it from, my internet browser always warns me that an
>> intruder could be stealing information as the server's certificate is
>> not accepted by my operating system.
>
> It's more likely that this is down to Webmin using a self-signed
> certificate. The only way round that is to purchase a certificate for
> the domain at which you're accessing Webmin and configure Webmin to
> use it.
>
> SSL certificates, in the main, perform two functions. They encrypt the
> data stream between you and the remote server, and they allow the
> server to prove they are who they say they are (through you both
> trusting some certificate authority).
> Self-signed certificates, lacking the certificate authority, Allow you
> to encrypt the stream between you and the server, but don't allow you
> to guarantee that the server is who it says it is. This is what that
> warning is telling you, and this is why re-generating a self-signed
> certificate wont get rid of it, and nor will having Apache serve the
> self-signed certificate.
>
>
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