HTTPS, finally
Thursday, June 28th, 2018 10:34In further news of updating my personal web presence, I have finally set up HTTPS for switchb.org. As I write this I'm working on updating all the links to it that I control.
The thing I found underdocumented in Let's Encrypt/Certbot is: if you want to (or must) manually edit the HTTP configuration, what should the edits be? What I concluded was:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName YOUR DOMAIN NAME
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR DOMAIN OR CERT NAME/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR DOMAIN OR CERT NAME/privkey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR DOMAIN OR CERT NAME/chain.pem
...rest of configuration for this virtual host...
</VirtualHost>
Notes:
/etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
(which of course may be in a different location depending on your OS and package manager) contains the basic configuration to enable SSL (SSLEngine on
) and certbot-recommended cipher options.- You have to have a separate VirtualHost entry for *:443 and *:80; there's no way to copy the common configuration as far as I heard.
- By "CERT NAME" I mean the name assigned to a multi-domain-name certificate if you have requested one. You can find out the certificate names with the command certbot certificates. For a single domain it will be identical to the domain name.