Encrypting a certain port 9998

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Letsencrypt is working for port 443, but the port 9998 is not secured. How can I secure the port?

To say, https://example.com is working but https://example.com:9998 is not secured.

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Hi @allison9y,

You’ll need to share more information. What webserver are you using? How did you issue the certificate initially?

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Hi @allison9y

global answer: If you want to use a certificate with a special port (port 5001, 8080 etc.), you have to do additional steps.

Sample: Your 443 port uses

        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl.key/example.com.key
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl.crt/example.com.crt

Then your port 9998 can use the same configuration -> a restart is required, if the 9998-server uses another binary.

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I am using AWS EC2 & Route 53. I used Let’s Encrypt following

https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-nginx, with sudo certbot --nginx.

Hope this helps.

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Can I be more clear on that? I can get that 9998 port can use the same configuration like 443 but can it use the same certificate key and file? If I cannot, how can I issue a different certificate for the port?

    listen 443 ssl;
    listen 9998 ssl;
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl.key/example.com.key
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl.crt/example.com.crt

Hope this question is valid.

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Please share your configuration you have used to create the port 443 - certificate.

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New to encryption so I tried to generalize it. The configuration didn’t work so I am going to work around with proxy and a domain, which worked.

Anyway, thanks.

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