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Hi ! 🙂 This is the second part of SSL guide. After obtaining the keys you can followed up to installing the keys on apache and do the changes in the virtual hosts and test your web site with https.

Step 5: Copying the private key and the certificate to etc/apache2/ssl

Command: cp server.crt /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt

Command: cp server.key /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key

Step 6: Configuring apache to use SSL

You will need to edit the ‘default-ssl’ configuration file which resides in etc/apache2/sites-avaiable directory.

• Change the ServerAdmin your_email, ServerName: domain_name or common_name, DocumentRoot: path to the web site content.

• Change the path to —>  SSL certificate and server key

Step 7: Enable the default-ssl configuration

You can use following commands interchangeably while enabling the proper configuration on your server.

Check already enabled site settings:

Command: a2dissite

Disable site settings:

Command: sudo a2dissite default-ssl

Enable site settings:

Command: sudo a2ensite default-ssl

Each time you need to restart the server to apply the config changes:

Command: sudo service apache2 restart

Step 8: Testing the site with SSL on browser

You will see tha padlock sign with https://domain_name_or_common_name

Now click on the padlock icon and go to “view certificate”.  You will the data that you entered when creating the CSR request there.

*Note: Sometimes you may see partially encrypted pages with https:// . The reason is the page may content images or other content with http.

Cheers ! 🙂