Configuring OCSP Stapling

OCSP is a protocol for checking the validity of certificates, that is, to make sure that they have not been revoked and whether they were actually issued. Enabling OCSP Stapling on the web server side allows you to increase the speed of site opening, since the request to the certification authority is made not by the browser, but by the web server.

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How to disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Nginx

The TLS 1.0 protocol appeared in 1999, TLS 1.1 in 2006, and they will both be considered obsolete in 2020, and will also have to be removed from support in various browsers around March 2020, so you need to disable them. Similarly, SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 protocols were previously outdated.

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The problem with multiple SSL on the same IP

If there are several sites with SSL on the same IP address, then old ancient browsers that do not support SNI will not be able to determine which certificate to download and will most likely download the first one that is registered at the beginning of the web server configuration.

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WordPress. Solution “cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate”

Once on one of the sites I noticed in WordPress the menu “Tools” – “Site Health” the following errors:

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