Secure your Synology NAS, install a SSL certificate. Ive been using the default setup on my Synology DS4. HTTPS enabled for a while now but knew it really wasnt all that secure without a proper SSL certificate and creating a self signed certificated isnt all the much better and can be easily forged. I decided it was about time I used a real certificate to better secure the NAS. Prerequisites before starting. You need to own a domain name, for example Mike. Tabor. com and be able to receive email from the domain name. If you dont already have a webhost for the domain, Id suggest Blue. Host. You also need a DDNS service setup. In this guide well discuss how to secure Nginx web server in FreeBSD with TLSSSL certificates offered for by Lets Encrypt Certificate Authority. OpenSSL is a robust, commercialgrade, and fullfeatured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security TLS and Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocols. In this case and for my use, I simply use the Synology DDNS service they offer for free. With those two setup, you will also want to add a CNAME DNS forward from your domain or subdomain if you wish to go that route to your DDNS service. Finally youll want to make sure Port Forwarding has been configured on your router. Getting Started. For me Ill be using a subdomain attached to my domain name for example subdomain. I also purchased the SSL certificate from Name. Cheap Comodo Positive. SSL for just 9. Note Ill be using a Synology DS4. DSM 5. 0u. 1. Log into your Synology and navigate to Control Panel Security Certificate and click on Create Certificate. Select Create certificate signing request CSR and click Next. Now fill out your request form with your information. Private Key Length 2. Name. Cheap SSLCommon Name Enter your domain name in my case Im using a subdomain so I enter subdomain. Install Ssl Certificate Apache Openssl Version For Sha2' title='Install Ssl Certificate Apache Openssl Version For Sha2' />Email Enter your email address. As will be shown soon, I noticed when I was going to confirm my email address I couldnt use any email address from the domain via Name. Cheap as they used pre selected email addresses. I simply created a forward on my webhosting control panel to forward all email from adminatmiketabor. Once the form has been completely filled out click on Next. Now click on Download. This will download a file called archive. SAVE these files Issue the SSL Certificate. If you havent already purchased your SSL, go ahead and do so. Once purchased Im assuming you also purchased from Name. Cheap log into your Neam. Cheap control panel and click on Issue next to your newly purchased SSL cert. In the Digital Certificate Order Form page select Other from the Select Web Server drop down menu. 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Cheap will give you a list of email addresses which can be used to approve the certificate request. Select an email address and click Next. The Apache SSL on Win32 HOWTO. Version 1. 6. 6 changelog view source A newer and hopefully more often updated version of this HOWTO which also covers Apache 2 is. This post describe how to quickly enable SSL for apache web server under linux. This has been done on a clouded virtual machine, the Linux distribution is Ubuntu 12. How can I retrieve a list of the SSLTLS cipher suites a particular website offers Ive tried openssl, but if you examine the output echo n openssl sclient. Install Ssl Certificate Apache Openssl Version MismatchNote As mentioned above I dont use any of these pre selected email addresses so I simply created a forward to my main email address in my web hosting control panel for the time being. In a few minutes you should receive an email from Comodo that contains a link and a validation code. Click on the link and enter the validation code and click Next. A few minutes after you confirm the validation code youll receive another email from Comodo with an ZIP file attachment, extract the file somewhere safe Import the SSL Certificate. Go back to your Synology and navigate to Control Panel Security Certificate and click on Import Certificate. Browse and import the following files for each field. Private Key Server. Getting Started, Step 4Certificate domaincom. Comodo. zip file in emailIntermediate certificate Positive. SSLCA2. crt also received from Comodo zip fileThen click on Next. Your Synology webserver will now restart which should only take a few seconds. Your Synology control panel certificates page will look like this Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPSTo finish up well want to make sure that any HTTP request the Synology receives is redirected to HTTPS and thus ensuring each time you access your Synology DSM its being protected by the SSL certificate. Within the Synology DSM navigate to Control Panel Network DSM Settings. Place a check in the following check boxes Enable HTTPS connection and Automatically redirect HTTP connections to HTTPS. Also worth enabling is SPDY which can make loading the page faster and HSTS which ensures browsers use the secured connection. Then click on Apply. Note This step is also a good time to change your port number if you wish Id recommend doing so as an added layer of security, just be sure to update your router port forwarding rules. Safe and secure Now simply try to access your NAS using your domainsubdomain example subdomain. SSL cert in your browser. Thats it Below Ive included some extra information based on the questions Ive received in the comments and email. Adding a CNAME in c. Panel. Ive been asked several times how to add a CNAME to a web host. The process is going to vary from web host to web host as it all depends on what control panel your web host uses, if any. In this case Ill show you how to add a CNAME using one of the most common control panels and thats WHMc. Panel. Blue. Host is an incredibly easy web host that also uses c. Panel which means the below steps will work perfectly. So if you dont already have a webhost, check out Blue.