Free SSL with Cloudflare for Apache2 Web Server

APACHE2 CREATE SSL(HTTPS)

All the cloudlflare setting will be same as the top post.

We are now letting you know how to generate the certificate and key for apache2.

STEP1: ENABLE SSL MODULE ON APACHE2 AND RESTART APACHE2

a2enmod ssl
systemctl restart apache2

STEP2: CREATE A SELF-SIGNED APACHE SSL CERTIFICATE

sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt

You will get below question and please answer accordingly like below:

Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:New York
Locality Name (eg, city) []:New York City
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Bouncy Castles, Inc.
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Ministry of Water Slides
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:your_domain.com
Email Address []:admin@your_domain.com

After this all question you will see 2 thing in /etc/apache2/ssl/

apache.key

apache.crt

STEP3: EDITING YOUR APACHE SSL CONFIG FILE TO SUPPORT HTTPS

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

and make your file look like below:

 
 ServerAdmin admin@example.com
 ServerName your_domain.com
 ServerAlias www.your_domain.com
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html
 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
 SSLEngine on
 SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
 SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key
 
 SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
 SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
 BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" 
 nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown 
 downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
 BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown

And you can now test your https://domain.com

And please setup cloudflare with the Step4 on nginx section.