Configuring Apache for SSL - Instructions

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20, 21, 22, 23

Description:
Instructions for SSL configuration in Aleph 18 (and higher):

Resolution:
Instructions for SSL configuration in Aleph18 (and higher):
Please note that some parts of this instruction may be irrelevant for the installations after special customer configuration.
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1. Put the certificates to the $httpd_root/SSLconf/conf

2. In file $alephe_root/www_server.conf - be sure following definitions are correct:

setenv server_httpsd "https://<IP>:443"
setenv server_css_ssl "https://<IP>:443"

3. Edit $alephe_root/apache/conf/ssl.conf and correct the ssl keys+certificate file locations.

4. Edit $alephe_root/apache/bin/apachectl and add to the HTTPD command –DSSL

5. In $alephe_root/apache/bin/apachectl_auto:
Replace

$httpd_bin/httpd -d $httpd_root

with

$httpd_bin/httpd -d $httpd_root -DSSL


6. In the file $alephe_root/www_f_eng/login Replace <form method=post
name="form1"
action="&server_f">

with

<form method=post
name="form1"
action="&server_f_ssl">
<input type="hidden" name="ssl_flag" value="Y">

7. In the $alephe_root/www_f_eng/login-session file Replace the:
<form method=post
name="form1"
action="&server_f">

With the :
<form method=post
name="form1"
action="&server_f_ssl">
<input type="hidden" name="ssl_flag" value="Y">

8.  Make the changes shown in Additional Information below in order to make http queries be redirected to https.

9. restart apache (as root) by running $alephe_root/apache/bin/apachectl_auto

10. restart WWW_server by using util w/3/1.  WWW Server