I installed a certificate to my apache server (eospict.com), using certbot. It was all verified correctly, so i followed this guide (https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#apache) to add them to my apache configuration. I’m running Mac v10.12.4
My httpd.conf file contains the following, indicating ssl is being handled by the httpd-ssl.conf file:
Secure (SSL/TLS) connections
# XAMPP Include etc/extra/httpd-ssl.confAnd here is my full httpd-ssl.conf file:
This is the Apache server configuration file providing SSL support.
It contains the configuration directives to instruct the server how to
serve pages over an https connection. For detailed information about these
directives see URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ssl.html
Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
what they do. They’re here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure
consult the online docs. You have been warned.
Required modules: mod_log_config, mod_setenvif, mod_ssl,
socache_shmcb_module (for default value of SSLSessionCache)
Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG):
Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the SSL library.
The seed data should be of good random quality.
WARNING! On some platforms /dev/random blocks if not enough entropy
is available. This means you then cannot use the /dev/random device
because it would lead to very long connection times (as long as
it requires to make more entropy available). But usually those
platforms additionally provide a /dev/urandom device which doesn’t
block. So, if available, use this one instead. Read the mod_ssl User
Manual for more details.
#SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/random 512
#SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/random 512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 512
When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the
standard HTTP port (see above) and to the HTTPS port
Note: Configurations that use IPv6 but not IPv4-mapped addresses need two
Listen directives: “Listen [::]:443” and “Listen 0.0.0.0:443”
Listen 443
SSL Global Context
All SSL configuration in this context applies both to
the main server and all SSL-enabled virtual hosts.
SSL Cipher Suite:
List the ciphers that the client is permitted to negotiate.
See the mod_ssl documentation for a complete list.
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5
Speed-optimized SSL Cipher configuration:
If speed is your main concern (on busy HTTPS servers e.g.),
you might want to force clients to specific, performance
optimized ciphers. In this case, prepend those ciphers
to the SSLCipherSuite list, and enable SSLHonorCipherOrder.
Caveat: by giving precedence to RC4-SHA and AES128-SHA
(as in the example below), most connections will no longer
have perfect forward secrecy - if the server’s key is
compromised, captures of past or future traffic must be
considered compromised, too.
#SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:AES128-SHA:HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5
#SSLHonorCipherOrder on
Pass Phrase Dialog:
Configure the pass phrase gathering process.
The filtering dialog program (`builtin’ is an internal
terminal dialog) has to provide the pass phrase on stdout.
SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
Inter-Process Session Cache:
Configure the SSL Session Cache: First the mechanism
to use and second the expiring timeout (in seconds).
#SSLSessionCache "dbm:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/ssl_scache"
SSLSessionCache "shmcb:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
SSL Virtual Host Context
<VirtualHost *:443>
General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"
ServerName eospict.com
ServerAdmin eospict.com@gmail.com
ErrorLog "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/error_log"
TransferLog “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/access_log”
SSL Engine Switch:
Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
SSLEngine on
Server Certificate:
Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate. If
the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a
pass phrase. Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again. Keep
in mind that if you have both an RSA and a DSA certificate you
can configure both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA
ciphers, etc.)
Some ECC cipher suites (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4492.txt)
require an ECC certificate which can also be configured in
parallel.
SSLCertificateFile “/private/etc/letsencrypt/live/eospict.com/cert.pem”
#SSLCertificateFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/server-dsa.crt”
#SSLCertificateFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/server-ecc.crt”
Server Private Key:
If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this
directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if
you’ve both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure
both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
ECC keys, when in use, can also be configured in parallel
SSLCertificateKeyFile “/private/etc/letsencrypt/live/eospict.com/privkey.pem”
#SSLCertificateKeyFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/server-dsa.key”
#SSLCertificateKeyFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/server-ecc.key”
Server Certificate Chain:
Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the
concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the
certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively
the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile
when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server
certificate for convenience.
SSLCertificateChainFile “/private/etc/letsencrypt/live/eospict.com/chain.pem”
Certificate Authority (CA):
Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA
certificates for client authentication or alternatively one
huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)
Note: Inside SSLCACertificatePath you need hash symlinks
to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
#SSLCACertificatePath “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/ssl.crt”
#SSLCACertificateFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt”
Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL):
Set the CA revocation path where to find CA CRLs for client
authentication or alternatively one huge file containing all
of them (file must be PEM encoded).
The CRL checking mode needs to be configured explicitly
through SSLCARevocationCheck (defaults to “none” otherwise).
Note: Inside SSLCARevocationPath you need hash symlinks
to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
#SSLCARevocationPath “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/ssl.crl”
#SSLCARevocationFile “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/ssl.crl/ca-bundle.crl”
#SSLCARevocationCheck chain
Client Authentication (Type):
Client certificate verification type and depth. Types are
none, optional, require and optional_no_ca. Depth is a
number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate
issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLVerifyDepth 10
Access Control:
With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based
on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server
variable checks and other lookup directives. The syntax is a
mixture between C and Perl. See the mod_ssl documentation
for more details.
#
#SSLRequire ( %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \
and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq “Snake Oil, Ltd.” \
and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {“Staff”, “CA”, “Dev”} \
and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \
and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20 ) \
or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192.76.162.[0-9]+$/
#
SSL Engine Options:
Set various options for the SSL engine.
o FakeBasicAuth:
Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation. This means that
the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control. The
user name is the `one line’ version of the client’s X.509 certificate.
Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user
file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA’.
o ExportCertData:
This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and
SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the
server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client
authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates
into CGI scripts.
o StdEnvVars:
This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*’ environment variables.
Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,
because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually
useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the
exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.
o StrictRequire:
This denies access when “SSLRequireSSL” or “SSLRequire” applied even
under a “Satisfy any” situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied
and no other module can change it.
o OptRenegotiate:
This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL
directives are used in per-directory context.
#SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
<FilesMatch “.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
<Directory “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/cgi-bin”>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
SSL Protocol Adjustments:
The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown
approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn’t wait for
the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown
approach you can use one of the following variables:
o ssl-unclean-shutdown:
This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no
SSL close notify alert is sent or allowed to be received. This violates
the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use
this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where
mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.
o ssl-accurate-shutdown:
This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a
SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify
alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in
practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use
this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation
works correctly.
Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP
keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable
keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable “nokeepalive” for this.
Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround
their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables “downgrade-1.0” and
“force-response-1.0” for this.
BrowserMatch “MSIE [2-5]”
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
Per-Server Logging:
The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a
compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis.
CustomLog “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/ssl_request_log”
“%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x “%r” %b”
Could anyone tell my what’s wrong, or give me a pointer as to a step I could have missed in the installation of my certificates.
Thank you