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How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end. We use the mod_ssl Apache module here to provide strong cryptography for Apache2 via SSL by the help of the Open Source SSL toolkit OpenSSL.
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Falko, a well-written article which solved a weekend of frustration configuring Apache2 with an SSL certificate. I decided to subscribe to HowtoForge based solely on the high quality of your article.
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For a site that accepts both http and https connections, do I need two virtual host files? So for instance, similar to "default" and "default-ssl," would I create "mysite" and "mysite-ssl" and then enable both of these? OR do I just need the "mysite-ssl" virtual host file?
For it to work with Oneiric Ubuntu you need to
Replace
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/www.hostmauritius.com.pem
With
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/www.hostmauritius.com.crt