So originally my host (mediatemple dv) has two default directories for the roots:
1)httpdocs/ 2)httpsdocs/
In the conf directory I changed the vhosts.conf and httpd.include and others to change from httpdocs to custom folders.
Now I installed a new ssl certificate and https://example.com goes to the default page located at httpsdocs.
I'm just wondering where configurations for apache are stored for ssl.
Ideas?
In a "normal" install, there's typically /etc/httpd/ that contains configuration. Specifically, there's /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf which is the "main" configuration file, and it specifies that all .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ are then included.
In my configs, I have /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf which does all of the https-specific configuration, but there's a wide degree of flexibility for the administrator to decide on.
Generally, you'll configure the SSL settings that are not necessarily specific to a given host (e.g. SSLCipherSuites) in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf (or similar in other distributions), but configure what's specific to a given host in its own VirtualHost (with the appropriate port), more or less like this:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
# ...
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/host.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/host.key
DocumentRoot /path/to/https/root
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
<VirtualHost *:80>
# ...
DocumentRoot /path/to/plain-http/root
</VirtualHost>
You could put the part with into its own file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ or within ssl.conf.
It depends on the distribution. On Debian/Ubuntu, you'll probably have the general SSL configuration in /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.conf and the site/virtualhost specific configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-available/some-name.conf.
