Install Apache2 with SSL support on Debian Lenny Linux / (Quick way to generate Self Signed SSL certificate)

Thursday, 25th February 2010

1. Install apache2 on your Debian Lenny

server# apt-get install apache2

2. Install openssl and it’s corequirements

server# apt-get install openssl ssl-cert

In case if you need php support as well on your Lenny:
server# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

3. Generate Self Signed SSL certificate

server# openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem
You might consider changing the /etc/apache2/apache.pem to whatever you like your ssl certificate file to be called.
Now you must ensure yourself that the newly generated ssl certificate has proper permissions issue the command.

server# chmod 600 /etc/apache2/apache.pem The default behaviour of the Apache server is to server unencrypted HTTP traffic on port 80, however in our case we need to enable SSL connections and therefore configure apache to serve and listen for traffic on port 443.

Therefore, we need to have Listen 443 in our /etc/apache2/ports.conf another thing we should do is to enable the ssl module with command:

server# a2enmod ssl

That should be it, now we have to restart the Apache webserver:

server# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To enable SSL on virtualhosts it’s required to change NameVirtualHost * in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file
to:
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443

To use SSL encryption on a specific Virtualhost, all you need to do is:
include:

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/apache.pem

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