Enabling Apache SSL and installing own certificates

This is for Ubuntu Server 12.04 64-bit.

The easiest way to activate Apache’s SSL is:

a2enmod ssl
a2ensite default-ssl
service apache2 restart

That’s all for the setup, now for installing the certificates. I am using certificates from StartSSL, so your installation may be slightly different.

Copy the unencrpyted SSL private key to /etc/ssl/private, chown it www-data:www-data, chmod it 700.

Find the line containing SSLCertificateKeyFile, uncomment it, and change it to point to your private key file, like so:

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/(your private key file)

Copy your public key to /etc/ssl/certs.

Change the SSLCertificateFile line to point to your public certificate, like so:

SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/(your certificate file)

Find the following line and uncomment it:

SSLCACertificatePath /etc/ssl/certs/

That’s it.

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