iFolder 3.7 on openSuse11.1 with Apache


Apache on SSL

1.Generating the certificates from yast2(you can generate from openssl but I used Yast).  Refer to the community wiki at http://community.ifolder.com/teaming/ifolder/wiki in article Installing a Certificate for instructions on using openssl.
2.Creating Root Ca from Yast.  Go to yast2->Security and Users->CA Management.   Create new CA.
3.Give name of CA and any common name like I gave CA1

Figure 1.

4.Other details are given above and in next page.  I gave password and went ahead with default key length.
5.Now enter the CA you created and go to certificates tab on the window.
6.Click on Add to add a new server certificate.
7.Give the IP address of your machine as common name of server certificate as shown in Figure 2.
8.After creating the certificate export the certificate to a .crt file by selecting the option                “Certificate and Key in Unencrypted format” as shown in Figure 3.


Figure 2

9.Now copy the above exported file to location  /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt
10.We need to load the certificate for apache to work over ssl .
-Copy /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.template  to /etc/apache2/vhost.d/vhost-ssl.conf
11.By default ssl port for apache is not enabled so you need to enable it in file
/etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add “SSL” to APACHE_SERVER_FLAG
12.After that you need to restart apache and apache will be running on port 443 by default, make sure you have enabled HTTPS or 443 port on firewall so any service running on this port should work.
13.If you want to configure iFolder in multi server setup over ssl, we need to create other certificates for the additional servers and use the same root ca for which you created the above certificate .
14.After creating any additional certificates follow the above instructions for installation on each server and configure apache on additional servers with ssl.


Figure 3.