Administration over SSL

[jimmi]

Hi everybody,

I found some post mentioning administration over SSL but I couldn't find any instruction to set it up.

Can anybody direct me to a document where to start from?

Thanks in advance
Jimmi

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can usually simply access your s9y via https://yourdomain/ and then everything's fine. You can configure the sidebar plugin "Admin login" to use https:// by default if you like!

Best regards,
Garvin

[jimmi]

You can usually simply access your s9y via https://yourdomain/ and then everything's fine.

Thanks Garvin,

as you may immagine I'm not too familiar with SSL. Following some howtos I certified one key set at CACert, and it seems to work fine (at least the debug messages of apache show the transaction without errors). I also tested some procedure given by another blog platform and, following your suggestion, I simply created in apache a VirtualHost *:443 by copying the VirtualHost *:80 and adding the statements:
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/MYSITE.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/MYSITE.key

but everytime I received an error of "connection closed" (I translate it from italian). I shall learn some more on the matter: do you have any document/howto to suggest me ?

Jimmi

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Phew, I'm sorry but this is a bit beyond my knowledge. The error you get comes from Apache, and it seems that your SSL setup is not properly working.

You did enable and load the SSL module for Apache? There's usually a lot of SSL configs that you need to enter; an example SSL VHost should be there in your config which you should enable and then add the settings of your usual VHost?

You might want to search for a specific Apache forum, maybe people can help you better and more profound there?

Best regards,
Garvin