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Overview

This document describes how to install an SSL certificate in a Lighthouse instance and enable HTTPS access, with a Windows Server 2012 R2 system image-based instance as an example.

Note

The SSL certificate used in the document is provided by Tencent Cloud. For more information on this service, see Overview and Purchase Guide.

Sample information

• Certificate name: cloud.tencent.com
• Apache version: Apache/2.4.53. You can download it here. If you need another version, contact us.
• OS: Windows Server 2012 R2. The detailed steps may differ by version.

Prerequisites

• Install the Apache service on the current server.
• Open port 443 and 80 in your firewall policy. For more information, see Managing Firewall.
• The data required to install the SSL certificate includes the following:

  Name	Description
  Lighthouse instance's public IP address	Instance IP address used to connect a local computer to the instance.
  Username	The username used to log in to the Lighthouse instance, such as `Administrator`.
  Password	The password matching the username used to log in to the Lighthouse instance.

  Note

  You can log into the Lighthouse console, find the target instance, and enter its details page to view its public IP address. After the instance is created, first reset the password and remember it. For more information, see Resetting Password.

Directions

Uploading certificate file

1. Log in to the SSL Certificate Service console and click Download for the certificate you need to install.
2. In the pop-up window, select Apache for the server type, click Download, and decompress the cloud.tencent.com certificate file package to a local directory.
   After decompression, you can get the certificate file of the corresponding type, which includes the cloud.tencent.com_apache folder.

• Folder: cloud.tencent.com_apache
• Files in the folder:
  • root_bundle.crt: Certificate file
  • cloud.tencent.com.crt: Certificate file
  • cloud.tencent.com.key: Private key file
  • cloud.tencent.com.csr: CSR file

    Note

    You can upload the CSR file when applying for a certificate or have it generated online by the system. It is provided to the CA and irrelevant to the installation.

3. Log in to the Lighthouse instance as instructed in Logging In to Windows Instance via Remote Desktop Connection.
4. Copy the obtained root_bundle.crt, cloud.tencent.com.crt, and cloud.tencent.com.key files from the local directory to the Apache server. For more information on how to upload a certificate file, see How to Upload Local File to Lighthouse Instance.
   Here, the files are copied to the ssl.crt and ssl.key folders under the \conf directory. You can specify the file location. The sample directory in this document is as shown below:
   

   SSL Certificate File	Folder
   root_bundle.crt	ssl.crt
   cloud.tencent.com.crt
   cloud.tencent.com.key	ssl.key

Configuration file

1. Open the httpd.conf file in the conf directory of the Apache server with a text editor and delete the # before the following fields.

   #LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
   #Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
   

2. Open the httpd-ssl.conf file in the conf\extra directory of the Apache server with a text editor as shown below:
   

3. Modify the httpd-ssl.conf file and set the following field parameters to the paths of the uploaded certificate files as shown below:

   SSLCertificateFile "C:/apache/conf/ssl.crt/cloud.tencent.com.crt"
   SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/apache/conf/ssl.key/cloud.tencent.com.key"
   SSLCertificateChainFile "C:/apache/conf/ssl.crt/root_bundle.crt"
   

Note

If there is no SSLCertificateChainFile entry in the httpd-ssl.conf configuration file, add it to the corresponding location as shown below:

4. Restart the Apache server and then you access it through `https://cloud.tencent.com`. If the "AH00526: Syntax error on line 18 of C:/apache/conf/extra/httpd-ahssl.conf:Cannot define multiple Listeners on the same IP:port" error is reported during the restart, there is a listening port conflict. Replace the listening port `443` in `conf\extra\httpd-ahssl.conf` with another port.

(Optional) Security configuration for automatic redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

1. Open the httpd.conf file in the conf directory of the Apache server with a text editor and delete the # before the following fields.

   #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
   

2. Configure the fields in the website running directory. For example, add the following content to the <directory "c:="" xampp="" htdocs"=""> field:

   <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
   </Directory>
   

3. Restart the Apache server and then you can access it through both http://cloud.tencent.com (which will be automatically redirected to https://cloud.tencent.com) and https://cloud.tencent.com.