Set up apache for https

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This article describes how you can secure your webpage running on apache2 with https. You create demo-certificates yourself for this. This is for SUSE Linux, for Fedora, I recommend http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/apache2.html

This article assumes you know about SSL, https and certificates.

  1. set up your Certification authority and create dummy-certificates
    2. /usr/bin/gensslcert
  2. get your SSL Configuration from the given template
    3. cd /etc/apache2/vhosts.d cp vhost-ssl.template vhost-ssl.conf
  3. change your SSL Configuration
    4. have apache2 start per default with SSL. To do this, edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2: replace APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS="" with APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS="SSL"
  4. restart apache2
    5. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  5. make sure you have content to show
    6. echo "this is a test" >> /srv/www/htdocs/index.html
  6. test your configuration
    7. wget --no-check-certificate --no-proxy https://localhost
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