# Self Signed Certs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/self-signed-certs/221397>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [July 12, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/self-signed-certs/221397 "2012-07-12T16:42:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/self-signed-certs/221397/1 "2012-07-12T16:42:15Z")

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I have a fully working installation of NGINX. I can server http and  
https websites when they have valid certificates. Only a few of my  
servers use certificates signed by 3rd Party CA and those work  
correctly. A few of my servers use a certificate generated from my  
enterprise ca, and those worked once that enterprise CA was added to the  
list of root CAs. The problem is I have a few appliances that don’t  
allow the use of enterprise CAs and I don’t want to purchase a 3rd party  
certificate for. Is there a way to get NGINX to server out these  
websites?

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Self Signed Certs](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,228540,228540#msg-228540)**
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> I have a fully working installation of NGINX. I can server http and https websites when they have valid certificates. Only a few of my servers use certificates signed by 3rd Party CA and those work correctly. A few of my servers use a certificate...

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**Author:** ![rosenbaaron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rosenbaaron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosenbaaron)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/self-signed-certs/221397/2 "2012-07-12T17:18:29Z")

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:41 PM, rosenbaaron [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I have a fully working installation of NGINX. I can server http and  
> https websites when they have valid certificates. Only a few of my  
> servers use certificates signed by 3rd Party CA and those work  
> correctly. A few of my servers use a certificate generated from my  
> enterprise ca, and those worked once that enterprise CA was added to the  
> list of root CAs. The problem is I have a few appliances that don’t  
> allow the use of enterprise CAs and I don’t want to purchase a 3rd party  
> certificate for. Is there a way to get NGINX to server out these  
> websites?

Yes, you can use self-signed certificates. Or you can get certificates  
for free from startssl.