Where can I specify the SSLProtocol directive

Question

I am configuring an apache server. I enabled SSL/TLS. I want to specify the TLS versions that the server should supports. I added the following lines in the site's configurations file:

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Listen 443
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.example.com
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "/path/to/www.example.com.cert"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "/path/to/www.example.com.key"
</VirtualHost>

Now, I need to specify the TLS versions. I found about the following directive: SSLProtocol from: Apache documentation. It is not so obvious where shall I specify this directive? in the configuration files? I do not want to mess things up so that's why I need to ask.

Answer 1

The docs page you linked to says:

Context: server config, virtual host

"Server config" means it's allowed in the outermost scope, i.e. where you have LoadModule and Listen. "Virtual host" means it's allowed inside a <VirtualHost> tag.