Admin and client access to ispconfig with SSL

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by indesco, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. indesco

    indesco New Member

    Hello everyone,

    I am testing ISPconfig3 and came with the following issue:
    After installing ISPconfig3 using the manual of SuSe 11.1 perfect server setup with ISPconfig3 I came to the conclusion that there is no initial secure access to the contrle panel.
    I have installed ISPconfig to be working on port 8080 and understand that this is not a conventional SSL port. But it should be possible because there are routers and applications like webmin that can bind the SSL service to other ports then 443.

    So I check the apache config and came to the conclusion that only the http access is configured in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ispconfig.vhost

    In my opinion when accessing a controle panel it should be a secure connection.

    Since the server is at home and I have only 1 IP address, all websites hosted will be using the same IP number and should be able to use the same SSL certificate (self signed).

    My question is therefor obvious:
    How can I activate SSL to access the ISPcontrolpanel? (in detail).
    When adding clients can they use the same SSL certificate (knowing that they will get a message from the browser).

    Thanks in advance.
    Ray
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Generate an SSL cert and add something like this to the ISPConfig vhost:

    Code:
    <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /path/to/certificate.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/certificate.key
    </IfModule>

    If you have no problem with the warning, then yes.
     

Share This Page