apache/ssl help

Keyser Soze keyser_soze at usa.com
Tue Dec 30 02:04:37 UTC 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:27:11 +0100
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: apache/ssl help

> Am Mo, den 29.12.2003 schrieb Keyser Soze um 23:04:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:53:40 -0800
> > 
> > > Keyser Soze wrote:
> > > > no, I do use ssh/sshd and putty to access the machine remotly, but that is not what I am asking for.
> > > > 
> > > > imp is the webmail program I use.  I can access my mail on that machine via http:\\mymachine.com and the logging in, but I want to use https:\\mymachine.com and that is where my query originates.
> > > 
> > > You have to set Apache up to use SSL.  Apache must be built with SSL
> > > enabled, set up a certificate and put the appropriate directives in the
> > > apache config file.  Details can be found on the Apache site:
> > > 
> > > 	http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html
> > > 
> > > BTW, we prefer bottom posting here.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >>Keyser Soze wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>>I have fedora core 1 installed and have apache and horde and imp all running and it seems to work great. Now I want to change the login to be able to use ssl. I have mode_ssl and openssl installed from fedora but have no idea how to enable ssl. Can someone point me in the right direction?
> > > >>
> > > >>What do you mean by "want the login to use ssl"?  The normal login
> > > >>process doesn't use security.  I suspect you want to remote access it
> > > >>via ssh, right?  In that case, simply run redhat-config-services
> > > >>and enable sshd.  You need an ssh client to access it.  For Windows,
> > > >>SecureCRT (commercial) or PuTTY (open source) are available.
> > > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> > 
> > 
> > ok bottom it is -
> > 
> > I now have apache running with the new certs and it is watching both secure and normal ports.
> > 
> > on the normal port (80) I see the imp login page and on the 443 page, I see the Fedora Core test page.
> 
> So there is no valid content in the DocumentRoot of the SSL host.
> 
> > I'd like to not see imp on port 80, and instead I will put a page that I have yet to create.  I want imp to be on https (443).  
> 
> You force HTTPS in the horde/imp configuration. Did you read that
> documentation and config files? You can use mod_rewrite to do an
> automatic redirect to the HTTPS site.
> 
> > How can I do this?  
> > 
> > Or maybe a more basic question: If I am serving both secure and nonsecure pages, will there be two distinct sets of files (trees) under /var/www?  If so, what are the two tree roots?
> 
> You can configure that how you like it. From what you are telling you
> should really first read the apache documentation on how setting up
> apache, especially using SSL and setting up vhosts.
> 
> > Thanks
> 
> Alexander

Maybe I missed it but I am having no luck in finding ssl documentation for apache.  Can you point me to a site?

(at least the version that comes with Fedora)

KS
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