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Reputation: 7072

Test SSL before changing DNS

I setup a new server. Before I change the nameservers of the domain to the new server, I would like to test if the SSL is correctly installed. Is there a possibility for this? I'm using Nginx.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 426

Answers (1)

Yi Feng Xie
Yi Feng Xie

Reputation: 5027

Yes. you can test the SSL before changing the domain record.

assume you want to test SSL with domain www.example.com, Nginx config should like following:

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.example.com;
    ssl_certificate your-ssl-crt.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key your-private-key.key;
    ...
}

and assume your server IP is 192.0.2.78. by updating a file named hosts at /etc/hosts(change the file on your client, not the server) , you will be able to browse www.example.com which served by 192.0.2.78.

You need to use root permission to change the host file by command sudo vim /etc/hosts, add a new line:

192.0.2.78 www.example.com

Now you can test whether your SSL work via https://www.example.com

Upvotes: 2

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