Access Joomla over HTTPS

Acces your Joomla site over Https (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure)

Step 1 - Setting up port forwarding

• Forward port 443 to your HDA IP address (example: 192.168.2.10)

Step 2- Install ssl module

• Type the following command
  • yum -y install mod_ssl

Step 3 - Create Certificate

• Go to your config file for apache,
  • cd /etc/httpd/conf/

• create a key and a self-signed certificate
  • openssl genrsa -out filename.key 1024
  • openssl req -new -key filename.key -x509 -days 1000 -out filename.crt

Step 4 - Edit httpd config files

• Go to the folder /etc/httpd/conf
  • cd /etc/httpd/conf
    • You can type ls to list the files.

• Edit httpd.conf
  • nano httpd.conf

• Insert a new line with the following:
  • NameVirtualHost *:443

• Save httpd.conf
  • control+O

• Exit nano
  • control+X

Step 5 - Edit Joomla config files

• Go to the folder /etc/httpd/conf.d
  • cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
    • You can type ls to list the files.

• Edit the joomla config file
  • nano ****-joomla.conf
    • (note that the number may change for you)(example: 1006-joomla.conf)

• Add the following text on a new line:
  • <VirtualHost *:443>

              ServerName joomla
              ServerAlias username.yourhda.com:443

              SSLEngine On
              SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/filename.crt
              SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/filename.key

              DocumentRoot /var/hda/web-apps/joomla/html

              <Directory "/var/hda/web-apps/joomla/html"> 
                      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
                      AddHandler fcgid-script .fcg
                      AllowOverride AuthConfig
                      Order allow,deny
                      Allow from all
              </Directory>

        </VirtualHost>

• Save your web-app.conf
  • control+O

• Exit nano
  • control+X

step 6 - Restart httpd service

• Restart your httpd service by issuing the following:
  • service httpd restart

Enjoy