Translations:Configuring Apache to use SSL/6/en

The most important question to answer is the "Common Name" question which should be the domain name of your server. In the case of a virtual machine on Compute Canada's cloud it should looks similar to the example response except that the X's should be replace with the floating-IP associated with the virtual machine.

Set Ownership and Permissions
Set the correct ownership and permissions of the private key with:

[name@server ~]$ sudo chown root:ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/server.key
[name@server ~]$ sudo chmod 640 /etc/ssl/private/server.key

Configure Apache to use the Certificate
Edit Apache's ssl configuration file with

[name@server ~]$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

and change the lines

SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

to

SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/server.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt

Also ensure that the DocumentRoot path matches that set in your /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file provided that is the site you wish to apply the SSL to.

Tighten Security
Force all http traffic to https, require more modern versions of SSL, and use better cipher options first by editing the file with

[name@server ~]$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

and adding

 ServerName XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.cloud.computecanada.ca
 ServerAlias www.XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.cloud.computecanada.ca
 SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
 SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5:!SEED:!IDEA:!RC4
 SSLHonorCipherOrder on

at the bottom of the entry inside the <VirtualHost> tag replacing the XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX with your VM's IPs (note the '-' are needed in place of '.'). Also put a redirect directive on our virtual host by editing the default website configuration file with:

[name@server ~]$  sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

and adding the line