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 our clouds, it should look similar to the example response except that the string of Xs should be replaced 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

Assuming that the default-ssl.conf, file is the SSL version of the non-encrypted 000-default.conf file for the site, make sure both files have the same DocumentRoot variables.

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
 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 XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX with your VM's public IP (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