Enabling SSL in Dispatcher with self signed certificate - Adobe CQ5

Enabling SSL in Dispatcher with self signed certificate - Adobe CQ5

This post will explain how to Enabling SSL in Dispatcher with self signed certificate in Adobe CQ5

Generating Self signed certificate in Dispatcher:

Create a folder ssl under /etc/httpd/ directory.
Generate server.key and server.crt file by running the following command:

openssl req -new -x509 -sha1 -newkey rsa:1024 \
-nodes -keyout /etc/httpd/ssl/server.key -out /etc/httpd/ssl/server.crt \
-subj '/O=<Organization>/OU=<Department>/CN= <Common Name>'

Change the <Organization>, <Department> and <Common Name> accordingly.

Configure Dispatcher:

Install mod_ssl.so by running the following command
yum install mod_ssl

Modify the VirtualHost in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file with the host name.

<VirtualHost test.server.com:443>

Also, specify the server certificate and key path in the below properties.

SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/server.key

Restart the Apache HTTP Server,now we can able to access the urls through https.