Configure SSL certificates with Apache

Getting SSL certificate

A SSL certificate is issue by a Certificate Authority (CA). Your internal IT/IS team might be able to help you with this. You might have to submit the basic information in the form of CSR (Certificate Signing Request). Refer this page to regenerate CSR: https://in.godaddy.com/help/generating-a-certificate-signing-request-csr-apache-2x-5269

Configure Apache

Once you have the SSL certificate, you can proceed to configure Apache:

1. Copy the certificate files to ${apache_home}/conf/CSR/

2. Open "${apache_home}conf/httpd.conf" file 

3. Search for the "LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so" and remove any pound sign(#) at the start of the line (i.e. un-comment it)

4. Add below section at the end of the file after replacing the dummy values with real one.

Listen 443
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
  DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs"
    ServerAdmin biobank@yourdomain.edu
    ServerName biobank.yourdomain.edu
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "D:\Apache2.2\conf\CSR\biobank_cert.crt"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "D:\Apache2.2\conf\CSR\biobank.key"
	RedirectMatch ^/$ /openspecimen
    ProxyPass /openspecimen ajp://localhost:8009/openspecimen
    ProxyPassReverse /openspecimen ajp://localhost:8009/openspecimen


</VirtualHost>
 
 
Note: Make sure that "SSLCertificateFile" and "SSLCertificateKeyFile" are properly located.