From the course: Linux System Engineer: Web Servers and DNS Using Apache, NGINX, and BIND
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Configure a secure virtual host - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux System Engineer: Web Servers and DNS Using Apache, NGINX, and BIND
Configure a secure virtual host
- [Instructor] In this exercise we'll create a secure virtual host using the key, and certificate that we created in the previous video. You will want to be logged into rhhost1, and have a Terminal open. Let's start by creating the new document root. Type in sudo space mkdir space /var/www/html/secure and hit Enter. Now we need to edit the ssl.conf file. This file contains the virtual host container that we will modify. Type in sudo space vi space /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and hit Enter. Search for virtualhost by pressing slash, and then typing in virtualhost. Change the document root to /var/www/html/secure. Go into insert mode by pressing I, and then change the document root to /var/www/html/secure. And change the server name to secure.localnet.com:443. Now press Escape and slash, and search for SSLCertificateFile and change the file name from localhost.crt to secure.localnet.com.crt. Now scroll down a bit to the certificate key file line. Change the file name from localhost.key to…
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