SSL Configuration

  1. generate keys
  2. add key to config, create virtual host entries
  3. edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf and add Listen 443
  4. add new virtual to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, ~namevirtualhost 208.151.246.84:80

Generate key request

per http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html

  • openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 4096
  • openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
  • openssl x509 -req -days 1460 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
  • openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure
  • mv server.key server.key.secure
  • mv server.key.insecure server.key

sign key with CA



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