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Install Apache-Httpd with SSL

About OpenSSL

OpenSSL should already be installed on your system (e.g. /usr/bin/openssl version), because it is used by OpenSSH (/usr/bin/ssh -version), but in case it isn't, then do the following steps

• Download Open-SSL version 1.0.1a or higher
  
• Build Open-SSL
  • ./config
  • make (NOTE: You might have to install gcc first)
  • sudo make install (will install at /usr/local/ssl by default, see INSTALL file for more details)
• Test Open-SSL installation by typing "/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version". As a response one should receive something like "OpenSSL 1.0.1a 19 Apr 2012"

Installing Apache httpd

• Download Apache-Httpd version 2.2.3 or higher
• Build Apache-Httpd with SSL
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.2.3 --enable-ssl=shared --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-http
    
  • make
  • sudo make install (will install at /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3)
    
• Create SSL-Key
  • openssl genrsa 1024 > /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/server.key
  • openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 -key /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/server.key > /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/server.crt
• Uncomment SSL config within /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/httpd.conf (Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf)
• Configure virtual hosts within /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
• A sample can be found at YANEL_HOME/src/httpd-2.2.3/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts_WITH_SSL.conf
• Uncomment vhosts config within /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/conf/httpd.conf (Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf)
• Startup Apache: /usr/local/httpd-2.2.3/bin/apachectl start
• Test SSL: https://127.0.0.1:443

Httpd and Tomcat with SSL:

Httpd with SSL only:

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