Note: This is just a documentation for myself and not a reference material
1) Apply for security certificate:
University students, faculty, staff & departments can request InCommon Certificates.
- To apply for your InCommon SSL certificate, please go to: https://cert-manager.com/customer/InCommon/ssl?action=enroll.
- Our Access Code is: 3565, then enter your email address.
- Your email address must be an @miami or @umiami.edu address.
- Please fill out the information requested. You may select Certificate Terms up to 3 years or what best suits your technical needs.
- You are able to reissue your certificate to a different server at any time. In order to do so, please send an email to software@miami.edu for instructions.
- Once you submit this form, the approval process can take 24-48 hours during Monday through Friday normal business hours. You will receive an email when it becomes active.
You will receive 3 certificates.
Copy the X509 Certificate only and X509 Intermediates/root only certificates to /etc/pki/tls/certs/
On your CentOS 7 server, run the following commands:
openssl genrsa -out i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.key 2048
openssl req -new -key i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.key -out i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.csr
vi i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.csr ( Enter this CSR on the request form)
cp i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.key /etc/pki/tls/private/
cp i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.csr /etc/pki/tls/certs/
openssl x509 -in i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.csr -text
openssl x509 -in ../../tls/private/i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.key -text
yum install openssl mod_ssl
chkconfig --level 345 httpd on
/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
Add this VirtualHost section to httpd's ssl.conf:
##
## SSL Virtual Host Context
##
<VirtualHost i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu:80>
ServerName i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu:80
Redirect / https://i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu/
</VirtualHost>
ProxyRequests off
<VirtualHost i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu:443>
# General setup for the virtual host, inherited from global configuration
#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
ServerName i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu:443
# Use separate log files for the SSL virtual host; note that LogLevel
# is not inherited from httpd.conf.
ErrorLog logs/ssl_error_log
TransferLog logs/ssl_access_log
LogLevel warn
# SSL Engine Switch:
# Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
SSLEngine on
# SSL Protocol support:
# List the enable protocol levels with which clients will be able to
# connect. Disable SSLv2 access by default:
#SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.2 -SSLv2 -SSLv3
# SSL Cipher Suite:
# List the ciphers that the client is permitted to negotiate.
# See the mod_ssl documentation for a complete list.
#SSLCipherSuite DEFAULT:!EXP:!SSLv2:!DES:!IDEA:!SEED:+3DES
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:!MEDIUM:!aNULL:!eNULL:!MD5:!RC2:!RC4:!DES:!3DES:!IDEA:!EXP:!EXPORT:!SEED
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
# Server Certificate:
# Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate. If
# the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a
# pass phrase. Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again. A new
# certificate can be generated using the genkey(1) command.
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/i2b2app-stage_ccs_miami_edu_cert.cer
# Server Private Key:
# If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this
# directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if
# you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure
# both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/i2b2app-stage.ccs.miami.edu.key
# Server Certificate Chain:
# Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the
# concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the
# certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively
# the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile
# when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server
# certificate for convinience.
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/i2b2app-stage_ccs_miami_edu_interm.cer
# Certificate Authority (CA):
# Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA
# certificates for client authentication or alternatively one
# huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)
#SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
# Client Authentication (Type):
# Client certificate verification type and depth. Types are
# none, optional, require and optional_no_ca. Depth is a
# number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate
# issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLVerifyDepth 10
# Access Control:
# With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based
# on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server
# variable checks and other lookup directives. The syntax is a
# mixture between C and Perl. See the mod_ssl documentation
# for more details.
#<Location />
#SSLRequire ( %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \
# and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq "Snake Oil, Ltd." \
# and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {"Staff", "CA", "Dev"} \
# and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \
# and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20 ) \
# or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192\.76\.162\.[0-9]+$/
#</Location>
# SSL Engine Options:
# Set various options for the SSL engine.
# o FakeBasicAuth:
# Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation. This means that
# the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control. The
# user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate.
# Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user
# file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'.
# o ExportCertData:
# This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and
# SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the
# server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client
# authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates
# into CGI scripts.
# o StdEnvVars:
# This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables.
# Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,
# because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually
# useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the
# exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.
# o StrictRequire:
# This denies access when "SSLRequireSSL" or "SSLRequire" applied even
# under a "Satisfy any" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied
# and no other module can change it.
# o OptRenegotiate:
# This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL
# directives are used in per-directory context.
#SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
<Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Files>
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
# SSL Protocol Adjustments:
# The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown
# approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for
# the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown
# approach you can use one of the following variables:
# o ssl-unclean-shutdown:
# This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no
# SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received. This violates
# the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use
# this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where
# mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.
# o ssl-accurate-shutdown:
# This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a
# SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify
# alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in
# practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use
# this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation
# works correctly.
# Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP
# keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable
# keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this.
# Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround
# their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and
# "force-response-1.0" for this.
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
# Per-Server Logging:
# The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a
# compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis.
CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
# Configure proxy and reverse proxy for i2b2 web services to JBoss localhost port
SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /i2b2 http://localhost:9090/i2b2
ProxyPassReverse /i2b2 http://localhost:9090/i2b2
</VirtualHost>
