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Self-Signed SSL Certificates

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A self-signed certificate is an identity certificate that is signed by its own creator, rather than paying a certified third-party to sign it.

Instructions adapted from http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html.

Rather than paying for an SSL certificate from a signing authority, we'll use a self-signed certificate to provide encryption in Apache. The client's web browser will prompt them to whether the certificate should be accepted or not - if that is going to be a problem, then you'll need to get a certificate from a recognized signing authority.

Create a directory, readable only by root to hold our working files:

mkdir ~/cert
chmod 600 ~/cert
cd ~/cert

SSL with Lighttpd

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Use SSL encryption on your Lighttpd webserver.

Lighttpd installation
Lighttpd needs to be configured and compiled with SSL enabled:

./configure --with-openssl
make
make install

After lighty has been installed, you can confirm that it has been compiled with ssl enabled:
lighttpd -v

SSL Configuration

mkdir /root/lighttpdssl
openssl req -new -x509 -keyout lighttpd.pem -out lighttpd.pem -days 365 -nodes
chown nobody:nobody lighttpd.pem
chmod 600 lighttpd.pem

Edit /service/lighttpd/root/lighttpd.conf and add:

Secure Drupal login

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Make Drupal encrypt your login with SSL.

http://drupal.org/node/53567

Port 465

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An SSL-encrypted SMTP service so your users can send mail through your server without passing clear-text passwords across the network.

Set up the service directory, download John Simpson's SMTP run script, and set it's permissions:

cd /var/service
mkdir -m 1755 smtp-ssl
cd smtp-ssl
wget http://qmail.jms1.net/scripts/service-qmail-smtpd-run
mv service-qmail-smtpd-run run
chmod 700 run

Edit /var/service/smtp-ssl/run and set the appropriate options:

IP=
PORT=465
SSL=1

SSL Encryption

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Secure communication with your web server by using self-signed SSL certificates.

The typical method of enabling SSL encryption in Apache is to use mod_ssl. A downside of that approach is that SSL does not work with name-based Virtual Hosts (Why can't I use SSL with name-based/non-IP-based virtual hosts?).

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