• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Desired Outcome Goal:
Encrypting the messages between the browser and the apache server for security reason

Procedure:
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">

and replace
<input type="hidden" name="func" value="login">

with
<input type="hidden" name="login_source" value="$0100">

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. restart apache (as root) by running $alephe_root/apache/bin/apachectl_auto
9. restart www_server by using util w/3/1

Category: Web OPAC (500)

Subject: Web server (500)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013