Activating SSL on the Urchin Webserver

The Urchin webserver that ships with Urchin 4.100 and later is capable of encrypting communication via SSL.

Save a copy of urchinwebd.comf.template and edit the original, making the following changes:

• add the following line before the XXXPORTXXX statement:
  LoadModule ssl_module etc/mod_ssl.so
  
  
• Comment out XXXPORTXXX directive and add a Listen directive
  #XXXPORTXXX (comment out)
  Listen 443
  
  
• Uncomment SSL logging directive
  CustomLog var/ssl_request_log "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
  
  
• Comment out SSLMutex line
  # SSLMutex file:var/ssl_mutex (comment out)

Make sure you have a legitimate server.key and a server.crt file in the var directory.

Windows users:

Reinstall urchinwebd as shown below to activate SSL using urchinctl.

urchinctl remove
urchinctl -e install (will automatically use 443 so -p option is not needed)