Xammp bitnami joomla ssl

Question

Hello I would like some pointers for enabling ssl on bitnami joomla that works with xampp I have read many tutorials nothing seems to work.I have tried to forse ssl from joomla adminstrator it says that the connection is not safe where might the problem be i see that the cert is not trusted i accepted it as trusted but still doesn't work .if someone knows the answer please share!

Answer 1

Bitnami developer here,

I have created a new auto-signed certificate using our guide at https://wiki.bitnami.com/Components/Apache#How_to_create_a_SSL_certificate.3f and modified file installdir/etc/extras/httpd-ssl.conf to use the new certificate files and after that restarted Apache server with sudo installdir/ctlscript.sh restart apache. It worked for me. The lines I modified in httpd-ssl.conf are:

...
SSLCertificateFile "/opt/lampp/etc/ssl.crt/server.crt"
...
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/opt/lampp/etc/ssl.key/server.key"
...

Then, I browsed my server using HTTPS and it showed an error page with error code NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID.

That means that the certificate is invalid because of the Certificate Authority is not a trusted one. It is completely normal because I have auto-signed the certificate. To skip this, click the "Advanced options" button and then click the link "Proceed to ...". You should see your website.

Also in the navigation bar you will see text "https" in red. If you click in the lock close to it, it will prompt a window with text:

The identity of this website has not been verified.
  • Server's certificate is not trusted.
Your connection to your_domain.com is encrypted with modern cryptography.
The connection uses TLS 1.2.
The connection is encrypted and authenticated using AES_128_GCM and uses ECDHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism.

Regards,

Gonzalo