Configuring the Apache web server for HTTPS

Configuration steps to secure a web service for Apache server in HTTPS.

To secure your web server and applications to use the SSL/TLS protocol, you must send a Certificate Signing Request to one of the trusted Certificate Authority companies on the Internet that will provide you with a certificate you can trust.

For information on generating a Certificate Signing Request, go to Create a certificate.

For testing purposes, you may need to create a self-signed certificate. To do so, start with the task to Create a root certificate authority and follow with the procedure to create the self-signed certificate in Create a certificate.

Once you have a certificate, either issued and signed by a trusted Certificate Authority or self signed for testing, follow the steps in this section to configure the Apache server for HTTPS.