SSL after Installation of Fess

Hi :slight_smile:

I have an installed and configured working well fess on ubuntu 20.04.
Now I want to have a SSL Login with https.
I read in the topics that I must use apache as reverse proxy but the installation chain is unfortunately:
First Apache then Fess. :frowning:

Is it possible to get it working when I install apache afterwards?
I installed apache and added in the myurl.conf under sites-available:

<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName fess1.domain.net

  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/test-cms.example.com.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/test-cms.example.com.key

  RedirectMatch ^/$ /login
  SSLProxyEngine on
  SSLProxyVerify none
  ProxyPass /  http://fess1.domain.net:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse /  http://fess1.domain.net:8080/

</VirtualHost>

I don’t know if this is correct and if it will working but I see that there is also the expression:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

Is it mandatory to have the DocumentRoot Expression? If yes where is the DocumentRoot of fess?

Thanks for Help! :slight_smile:

Conmariin

Fess works with any reverse proxy, such as Apache and Nginx.
If it does not work, I think the configuration is wrong.

RedirectMatch ^/$ /login

Is this configuration needed?

ProxyPass / http://fess1.domain.net:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://fess1.domain.net:8080/

I think it’s better to use htttp://localhost:8080/.

Thanks for your answer. :slight_smile:
And what is the DocumentRoot?

Best regards
Conmariin :slight_smile:

Okay, I got it.
Here my solution as an answer for me (and all with the same pain :wink: ):

Install apache
Install fess (i simply backed up fess-files, deinstall fess, install fess)
Apache ReverseProxy is on the same machine as fess.

Configured /etc/apache2/000-default.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	
	ServerName your.domain.net

	ProxyPass / http://your.server.ip.address:8080/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://your.server.ip.address:8080/

	#ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	#DocumentRoot /var/www/html

	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

and
Configured /etc/apache2/default-ssl.conf:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
	<VirtualHost *:443>
		
		ServerName your.domain.net

		# DocumentRoot /usr/share/fess

		
		#   SSL Engine Switch:
		#   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
		SSLEngine on

		#   A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing
		#   the ssl-cert package. See
		#   /usr/share/doc/apache2/README.Debian.gz for more info.
		#   If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
		#   SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
		SSLCertificateFile	/etc/ssl/certs/your.certificate.net.crt
		SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/your.certificate.net.key

		# RedirectMatch ^/$ /login
		#SSLProxyEngine on
		#SSLProxyVerify none
		ProxyPass / http://your.server.ip.adress:8080/
		ProxyPassReverse / http://your.server.ip.adress:8080/

		#   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/ssl/yourcertificate.net.crt

		#   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)
		#   Note: Inside SSLCACertificatePath you need hash symlinks
		#		 to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
		#		 Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
		#SSLCACertificatePath /etc/ssl/certs/
		#SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt

		#   Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL):
		#   Set the CA revocation path where to find CA CRLs for client
		#   authentication or alternatively one huge file containing all
		#   of them (file must be PEM encoded)
		#   Note: Inside SSLCARevocationPath you need hash symlinks
		#		 to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
		#		 Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
		#SSLCARevocationPath /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/
		#SSLCARevocationFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/ca-bundle.crl

		#   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

		#   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 OptRenegotiate:
		#	 This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL
		#	 directives are used in per-directory context.
		#SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
		#<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
		#		SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
		#</FilesMatch>
		#<Directory /usr/lib/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.
		# BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \
		#		nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
		#		downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

		ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
		CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Check if both .conf are represented under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

Check the configuration with sudo apache2ctl -t if syntax is ok

(a DocumentRoot is not needed)

Restart apache2

Regards
Conmariin