I belive that you know basics of apache configuration and you can claryfy diference between http and https. I advise you to restart httpd server after configuration steps. It prevents of makeing stupid mistakes at the beginning.
Let's start. How? I hope you know. Installation of httpd, of course.
1. Simple site
#yum install httpd
After this you will have fresh installation of apache 2.2 server. To start it type:
#/etc/init.d/httpd start
or
#service httpd start
Now, if you'll point your browser to http://localhost/ you'll see default centos/apache site. But it wasn't our aim. Create file for your http site. For testing purposes create file index.html containing:
<html>
<head>
<title>Default page</title>
</head>
<body>
My test page.
</body>
</html>
Put this file to /var/www/html/ directory and reload your browser. Yupi! That's it.
2. VIRTUAL DOMAIN AND SSL CERTIFICATES
In fact that is still not what I wanted. I bought two domains and they point to my public IP address. Let's call them examle1.com and example2.com. Now both domains shows the same - blithe 'My test page.' site. I'd like situation when on different domains will be difarent sites. More over I'd like to have different sites displayed via http:// and https:// protocols.
At the beginning I have to install ssl extension for httpd server.
#yum install mod_ssl
After restarting httpd you can point your browser (if there is no firawall) to https://localhost/. The same as previous site should appear. The browser will ask you to accept site certificate. If you will check this certificate you will notice that there are fields like 'SomeOrganisation'. We don't want them.
To create your own self-signed ssl certificate use this page. It describes very well how to do it. I changed directory when a put needed files to /etc/httpd/conf/.
OK. Now I have server.crt and server.key files and I can create my https virtual domain. But at first edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file and remove part begginig with
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
Include sites/*.site
Last line means that, in this moment, apache will include files from /etc/httpd/sites which ends with '.site'. But there is no such a directory. Create it! It is god practise to have each virtual domain configured in separate file. You will not get lost after couple of reconfigurations. Here I paste those four configuration files. Change them in your own way.
# cat example1.com.site
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/example1.com
ServerName http://example1.com
ErrorLog logs/example1.com.error.log
TransferLog logs/example1.com.transfer.log
CustomLog logs/example1.com.access.log common
<Directory /var/www/example1.com/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# cat example1.com.https.site
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/example1.com.https
ServerName https://example1.com
ErrorLog logs/example1.com.https.error.log
TransferLog logs/example1.com.https.transfer.log
CustomLog logs/example1.com.https.access.log common
SSLEngine On
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/server.key
<Directory /var/www/example1.com.https/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and two others just with example2.com instead of example1.com. As you can see those files points apache server to directories /var/www/example*. You have to create them and put there simple files to check if every domain and protocol displays diferent thing. To do so, insert different text between tags in those files.
Now you can fill your sites. Sever should be now able to handle http/https requests.
I hope I didn't miss any part of configuration because I've done those steps last month but I didn't have enough time to put them to this blog.
