Set up apache2 for https

This article describes how to secure your webpage running on apache2 with https. You create demo-certificates yourself for this. Find out your distribution, then proceed accordingly:

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

= Ubuntu Linux = Follow https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/httpd.html. If you use name-based virtual hosts, your apache configuration will look like this afterwards:  ServerName foo.org DocumentRoot /var/www/foo

SSLEngine on SSLOptions +StrictRequire SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/server.key 