Installation and Configuration in linux with secure my local LAN network websites or personal websites

We can secure our local LAN network websites by using Self signed SSL.

     In this post i am going to explain how to install and configure self signed SSL. Which will secure your personal websites or Internal(LAN) websites



Step 1: Installation of required packages
# yum install mod_ssl openssl
Step 2: Create Private, CSR and Selfsigned key
# mkdir ~/SSL
# cd ~/SSL
# openssl genrsa -out ca.key 1024
# openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
# openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -signkey ca.key -out ca.crt




Step 3: Copy the files to correct path
# cp ca.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs
# cp ca.key /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
# cp ca.csr /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.csr



Step 4: Edit the SSL Configuration file make the required changes and restart httpd service
# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
Edit the line 112 and make sure that SSLCertificate file is pointed to path /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt


 
Edit the line 119 and make sure that SSLCertificateKeyFile  file is pointed to path /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key




Restart httpd service to make edited SSL configuration work
# cat > /var/www/html/index.html
Yes SSL Works





Step 5: Verify SSL is working by checking through Browser