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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

By : Neil Smyth
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

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By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is one of the most secure and dependable operating systems available. For this reason, the ambitious system or network engineer will find a working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise 8 to be an invaluable advantage in their respective fields. This book, now updated for RHEL 8.1, begins with a history of Red Enterprise Linux and its installation. You will be virtually perform remote system administration tasks with cockpit web interface and write shell scripts to maintain server-based systems without desktop installation. Then, you will set up a firewall system using a secure shell and enable remote access to Gnome desktop environment with virtual network computing (VNC). You’ll share files between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) and Windows System using Samba client and NFS. You will also run multiple guest operating systems using virtualization and Linux containers, and host websites using RHEL 8 by installing an Apache web server. Finally, you will create logical disks using logical volume management and implement swap space to maintain the performance of a RHEL 8 system. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the skills and knowledge to install the RHEL 8 operating system and use it expertly.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
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Index

27.9 Configuring Apache for HTTPS

By default, the Apache server does not include the necessary module to implement a secure HTTPS web site. The first step, therefore, is to install the Apache mod_ssl module on the server system as follows:

# dnf install mod_ssl

Restart httpd after the installation completes to load the new module into the Apache server:

# systemctl restart httpd

Check that the module has loaded into the server using the following command:

# apachectl -M | grep ssl_module

 ssl_module (shared)

Assuming that the module is installed, the next step is to generate an SSL certificate for the web site.