How to enable and configure SSL (HTTPS) in Apache on Ubuntu 22.10

To enable SSL in Apache 2 on Ubuntu 20.10, you can follow these steps:

Install the Apache2 SSL module

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev apache2-utils

sudo a2enmod ssl

Create a new SSL certificate and private key for your domain

Create a new SSL certificate and key pair for your domain. Make sure you change the your_domain.key to your own domain name; whilst it won't really make a difference, if you're securing a number of different domains it makes sense to create the keys with the domain they match as it can often be confusing when copying keys around servers if they're all named by default names!

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/your_domain.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/your_domain.crt

Configure a virtual host for your domain in Apache

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf

    ServerAdmin admin@your_domain.com
    ServerName your_domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/your_domain
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/your_domain.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/your_domain.key

    
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted