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  • Switching Apache Web Server Config?

    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 15 00:26:17 2023
    What is involved in taking my apache web server from http to https?
    Is it a matter of adding or of replacing programs or of editing
    config files?

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From Vlad Markov@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Thu Dec 14 20:45:00 2023
    On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:35:04 -0600
    Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 12/14/23 18:26, Louis Epstein wrote:
    What is involved in taking my apache web server from http to https?
    Is it a matter of adding or of replacing programs or of editing
    config files?

    It should simple be a matter of configuration file changes.

    I don't know how simple those changes are on your system. (I don't do
    much with FreeBSD.)

    You will need SSL certificates. You might try getting them form here: https://letsencrypt.org/

    The rest is configuration. It was well enough documented. I stopped hosting a web server a while ago but I remember documentation being under /usr/local/share/apache or /usr/local/share/doc/apache.

    It is easy.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Thu Dec 14 19:35:04 2023
    On 12/14/23 18:26, Louis Epstein wrote:
    What is involved in taking my apache web server from http to https?
    Is it a matter of adding or of replacing programs or of editing
    config files?

    It should simple be a matter of configuration file changes.

    I don't know how simple those changes are on your system. (I don't do
    much with FreeBSD.)



    --
    Grant. . . .

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  • From Mike Scott@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Dec 15 08:13:38 2023
    On 15/12/2023 01:35, Grant Taylor wrote:
    On 12/14/23 18:26, Louis Epstein wrote:
    What is involved in taking my apache web server from http to https?
    Is it a matter of adding or of replacing programs or of editing
    config files?

    It should simple be a matter of configuration file changes.

    I don't know how simple those changes are on your system.  (I don't do
    much with FreeBSD.)



    Not quite so simple, as you need some security certificates. You can pay
    for these if you want, or check out (for example) letsencrypt for free self-signed cert's.

    I did get mine running, but it was a bit like finding my way round a
    strange town in a good old-fashioned pea-souper.


    --
    Mike Scott
    Harlow, England

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  • From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Dec 15 15:43:01 2023
    In article <ulh1ri$1quj8$[email protected]>,
    Mike Scott <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Not quite so simple, as you need some security certificates. You can pay
    for these if you want, or check out (for example) letsencrypt for free >self-signed cert's.

    There appears to be a plethora of FreeBSD ports of ACME clients
    including Certbot: <URL:https://www.f:reshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=acme&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>
    <URL:https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=certbot&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>

    And plenty of success stories: <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=acme+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>
    <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=certbot+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>

    John
    [email protected]

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  • From Mike Scott@21:1/5 to John D Groenveld on Fri Dec 15 19:27:42 2023
    On 15/12/2023 15:43, John D Groenveld wrote:
    In article <ulh1ri$1quj8$[email protected]>,
    Mike Scott <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Not quite so simple, as you need some security certificates. You can pay
    for these if you want, or check out (for example) letsencrypt for free
    self-signed cert's.

    There appears to be a plethora of FreeBSD ports of ACME clients
    including Certbot: <URL:https://www.f:reshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=acme&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>
    <URL:https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=certbot&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>

    And plenty of success stories: <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=acme+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>
    <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=certbot+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>

    John
    [email protected]

    Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I'm using certbot, and it seems to
    run happily without attention once set up.

    I had to sort this a couple of years ago - running a web site at home
    for a small choir, I found some members' phones were so security minded,
    https was mandatory. Chrome on my android tablet is equally annoying, as
    it won't access what it thinks are unreasonable web ports; which I use
    for marginal extra security. Some kit is too smart to be useful.

    --
    Mike Scott
    Harlow, England

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Mike Scott on Sun Dec 17 04:27:22 2023
    Mike Scott <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On 15/12/2023 15:43, John D Groenveld wrote:
    In article <ulh1ri$1quj8$[email protected]>,
    Mike Scott <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Not quite so simple, as you need some security certificates. You can pay >>> for these if you want, or check out (for example) letsencrypt for free
    self-signed cert's.

    There appears to be a plethora of FreeBSD ports of ACME clients
    including Certbot:
    <URL:https://www.f:reshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=acme&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>
    <URL:https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=package&method=match&query=certbot&num=500&category=&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head>

    And plenty of success stories:
    <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=acme+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>
    <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=v&kt=v&kh=1&kj=r2&q=certbot+site%3AFreeBSD.org&submit=Search&ia=web>

    John
    [email protected]

    Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I'm using certbot, and it seems to
    run happily without attention once set up.

    I also received some private email pointing me toward certbot.
    Have not tried anything yet.

    I had to sort this a couple of years ago - running a web site at home
    for a small choir, I found some members' phones were so security minded, https was mandatory. Chrome on my android tablet is equally annoying, as
    it won't access what it thinks are unreasonable web ports; which I use
    for marginal extra security. Some kit is too smart to be useful.


    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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