Goal
The goal of this blog is to setup DNS Name and HTTPS Certificate
Assumptions
You would be using Cloud Flare to setup your DNS and you would buy your domain name from godaddy and using Oracle cloud – all these 3 can vary however the procedure remains more or less the same.
Buying a Domain
You would need to register a domain from domain name service provider such as godaddy or anyone else , Once you buy the domain name you can access the default home page within max 24 hours and should be able to access your website and admin console area
Make Note of DNS Names this eventually needs to be changed
Making Note of Public IP Address
We would need to Map our Public IP address from OCI Console to CloudFlare ( Assuming that you already have cloudflare account created )
Let us assume that our Public IP address A.B.C.D this is something that we need to Provide in website IP address at CloudFlare
Cloudflare DNS and Hostname Mapping
In the Domain Name setting under DNS Tab , give the newly purchased hostname and map it to Public IP Address of the Server
example we can map as below
A record of somedomain.com to A.B.C.D ( Public IP )
CNAME should have www.yourdomain.com
Scroll down to make note of DNS Named Server urls – this is something that needs to replace godday DNS Server
Generating SSL Certificate from Cloudflare
Select Crypto Tab , Generate SSL Certificate , this will create 2 files 1) yourdomain.crt and 2) yourdomain.key – copy paste this as CRT and KEY files , we would later need to upload this to our server
Important : FTP the KEY and CRT files to any folder of your choice example /mnt/path/certificates/
SSH to Server and Modify Apache Settings
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
VirtualHost *:80
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /mnt/path/www/html
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info,
# 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
VirtualHost
VirtualHost *:443
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
#DocumentRoot /var/www/html
DocumentRoot /mnt/path/www/html
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /mnt/path/certificates/yourdomain.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /mnt/path/certificates/yourdomain.com.key
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
/VirtualHost
Reality Check
http://yourdomain.com and http://www.yourdomain.com
https://yourdomain.com and https://www.yourdomain.com
should now be live and be accessing content from your public ip A.B.C.D