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Configuring SSL for the Apache Server

Configuring KnowledgeTree > Configuring SSL for the Apache Server

This procedure manually configures SSL for the Apache server in the KnowledgeTree stack.

Important

HTTP over SSL encryption secures all communications between the client Web browser and the server. You can enable SSL automatically through the stack install/stack upgrade, or; perform the procedure manually, on Windows or Linux, as outlined in this topic.

Prequisites:

•	Linux users: Start the server as ROOT to allow Apache to bind to port 443. To do this, you may need to install KnowledgeTree as the root user so that the configuration files are assigned the correct permissions.

•	Windows users: Create a SSL certificate before performing the following procedure.

Perform the following steps:

1.	Open the following file in a text editor (e.g. Notepad, for Windows users):{$INSTALLDIR}/apache2/conf/httpd.conf.

2.	Remove # at the start of the following line:

#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

3.	Restart DMS services:

•	Windows users: via the Start menu

•	Linux users: via dmsctl.sh script

4.	Connect via your Web browser (using https://xxxxxxx/)

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