Re: SSL setup assistance

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 3:02 PM Marc <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> > I am running Apache on a Windows server with at least close to latest
> > release.  It host my personal website and a website for my home Christmas
> > light show.  Just simple static web pages - nothing fancy at all.  There
> > is absolutely nothing that needs any degree of security.  As such I have
> > never made any attempt to set up SSL on the server.
> >
> > This is becoming an issue because more and more browsers are getting
> > picky about http only traffic - in particular imbedding an image from a
> > http website into an otherwise https website (lighting forums running
> > https with images imbedded from my website is the specific issue).
> >
> > I tried to set up SSL on my server a couple years ago and after whatever
> > changes were made, Apache would not even start (and I don't remember what
> > error message were logged).  So I reverted the Apache config back to what
> > it had been and ignored the issue for a few more years.
> >
> > So can someone either point me to a good step by step or walk me through
> > what I need to do to get this working.  I had gotten the cert back then
> > via Let's Encrypt, and that was the easy part.
>
> just add this and change your port
>
> SSLEngine on
> SSLCertificateFile "/home/acme/www.xxxxxxxxx.cer"
> SSLCertificateChainFile "/home/acme/www.xxxxxx.cer"
> SSLCertificateKeyFile "/home/acme/www.xxxxxxxxx.key"
>
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Marc,

You should not be using SSLCertificateChainFile any more, in fact.
Nowadays, the CA is handled differently.