installing an SSL on Azure ubuntu web server

I have been trying to install an SSL Certificate on an Ubuntu Server running on a VPS.

Solution

He is what I did to resolve the issue. 1. I created a new endpoint (HTTPS - port 443) from my Microsoft Azure portal

On my Ubuntu VM terminal, I did the following. To enable the SSL module in Apache2 you issue the command below

sudo a2enmod ssl

The you need to enable the site that would using the SSL

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

The directories /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/private are the default locations. If you install the certificate and key in another directory make sure to change SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile appropriately. Add the following to your default-ssl file.

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/sslmate/example.com.key
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/sslmate/example.com.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/sslmate/example.comchain.crt


SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCompression off

now configured for HTTPS, restart the apache2 service to enable the new settings:

sudo service apache2 restart

You might want to redirect all your HTTP request to HTTPS, add the code below to your virtualHost file listening to port 80. It will redirect all HTTP request to the HTTPS (https://example.com)

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
 RewriteEngine On
     RewriteRule /.* https://example.com/ [R]

</VirtualHost>