How To Create a SSL Certificate (Nextcloud) 🔒

The video showing how to create a self-signed SSL certificate

Commands:

1- Enable the module ssl
$ sudo a2enmod ssl

2- Create a directory to save both the certificate and the key
$ mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl

3- Now create the certificate and the key
$ sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/YOURFILENAME.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/YOURFILENAME.crt

4- Now make the apache have the access to the key and the certificate

5- Paste those to lines
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/YOURFILENAME.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/YOURFILENAME.key

6- Restart your apache to apply the changes
$ service apache2 restart

7- To redirect the http to https
Angle brackets VirtualHost *:80 Angle brackets
ServerName nextcloud
Angle brackets /VirtualHost Angle brackets


Angle brackets VirtualHost *:443 Angle brackets

8- To read the certificate
$ openssl x509 -in CertificateFileName -noout -text

[meowcula]

Seen a bunch of tutorials about, this is probably the most straightforward one. Thank you, I'll be trying this. I had already made myself a CA and signed my own certificate, but I had no idea where to put it. Further compounded that my nextcloud is running in a docker container. But I think I can figure it out from here and already have some good ideas on how to make this work. Thank you!

[ljwnow]

Wish all the tutorials are like this. Very clear and explanatory.

[vinodkrishnanradhakrishnan]

Thank you finally got SSL working for my private cloud

[spyghetti]

great video, even though the audio wasn't amazing the closed captioning worked great..

[thanhkhanhnguyen]

hello..NextCloud does not have Domain, can open SSL for it .. thanks

[giovannigio]

I get the SSL error "SSL ERROR RECORD TOO LONG" at the end. The only difference vs you config is the listening port which is 8080 in my case. I still have not found a solution

[vasquezfamily]

How do you save the conf file??? What did you pressed to save it??

[GGCQ]

Great video & easy to follow. Thank you.
When I try to restart Apache2 it asks me for a password. I never set one, as you know. That has left me unable to run Apache2 & I am lost as to what to do next.
I’d be very grateful if you could point me to any help file? Thanks very much..

[anonymousgamer]

After I modified it and added the ssl cert and key. It works, and is a secure connection. However, now it always brings me to the default page, and am unable to reach NextCloud.

[johnjames_cowperthwaite]

I woud invest in a very good microphone, other than that good tutorial!

[thereneramirez]

i dont get step 7, can you please explain? i keep getting "the connection for this site is not secure"