| Recipe 41 | Configuring Secure Websites with Apache |
Problem
When our applications and websites deal with people’s information, we owe it to those people to safeguard it. We want to make sure our servers and databases safely store that information, but we also need to protect that data during its trips from their computers to our servers and back. We need to configure our web server so that it uses SSL to connect to web browsers.
Ingredients
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A virtual machine running Ubuntu for testing
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The Apache web server with SSL support
Solution
To set up a secure web server, we need to set up SSL certificates. Production websites use signed SSL certificates that are verified by a third-party authority. This verification gives customers a sense of security.
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