Generating Your Own Security Certificates For Use With Apache/HTTPS - Configure Apache
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The desired directories, files and directives should be set in Apache's configuration file.
# vi /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
ServerType standalone
ServerRoot /usr/local/apache
<IfDefine SSL>
Listen 80
Listen 443
</IfDefine>
User nobody
Group nogroup
ServerAdmin mail@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdd/web
LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
</IfModule>
<Directory "/mnt/hdd/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<IfDefine SSL>
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdd/webssl
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile \
/usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile \
/usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key
<Directory "/mnt/hdd/webssl">
Options Indexes MultViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
</IfDefine> |
The default configuration file provides a good starting point. Specific points of interest are the ServerType, ServerRoot, ServerAdmin, ServerName, DocumentRoot, LoadModule, SSLEngine, SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives.
Be sure that the SSLCertificateFile points to the location of the server's certificate and the SSLCertificateKeyFile points to the location of the server's encryption key.
There may be other directives that you wish to change.
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