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Once OpenSSL is installed, enter the following commands (changing &ltopenssl<openssl_dir> to the proper path for the OpenSSL installation directory) at the command line to generate the certificate key. The example uses 1024 bit encryption; if required, you can increase to your preferred value:

cd &ltopenssl<openssl_dir>/bin 
openssl genrsa -des3 -out uptime_ssl_server.key 1024 
openssl req -new -key uptime_ssl_server.key -out uptime_ssl_server.csr 
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in uptime_ssl_server.csr -signkey    
	uptime_ssl_server.key -out uptime_ssl_server.crt

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Windows:
Open notepad and enter the following line where &ltyour<your_SSL_server_password> is the password for your generated certificate keys.

@echo &ltyour<your_SSL_server_password>

Save the file as passphrase.cmd.

Linux:
Open vim and enter the following lines; &ltyour<your_SSL_server_password> is the password for your generated certificate keys.

#!/bin/bash

echo "&ltyour<your_SSL_server_password>"

Save the file as passphrase.cmd.

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Copy the following files to the &ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/conf directory where &ltuptime<uptime_dir> is the installation directory of up.time (the default installation directory is C:\Program Files\uptime software\uptime on Windows and /usr/local/uptime on Linux).

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The following changes to the web server configuration file (httpd.conf) will allow it to use SSL.

Open &ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/conf/httpd.conf for editing. Where &ltuptime<uptime_dir> appears below, change it to reflect the directory where you have up.time installed (ex. c:/Program Files/uptime software/uptime). All path slashes in httpd.conf need to be forward slashes (rather than the usual backslash that is used in Windows).

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On Linux installations, the mod_rewrite.so module is not bundled with up.time, so it is necessary to download and copy the mod_rewrite.so file from the bottom of this article to the &ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/modules directory. Then, in httpd.conf, add the following line after "# LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so". If issues are experienced with the version of mod_rewrite.so attached, try creating a symlink to the mod_rewrite.so file provided by the Linux distribution instead.

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Finally, the last part is to add entries in httpd.conf that will rewrite the requests as HTTPS. At the bottom of the httpd.conf file, add these lines, changing &ltuptime<uptime_dir> to the directory of your up.time installation:

SSLMutex default
SSLPassPhraseDialog "exec:&ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/conf/passphrase.cmd"
SSLSessionCache none
&ltVirtualHost
<VirtualHost *:80>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
 RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>
&ltVirtualHost
<VirtualHost *:443>
 SSLEngine on
 DocumentRoot "&ltuptime<uptime_dir>/GUI"
 SSLCertificateFile "&ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/conf/uptime_ssl_server.crt"
 SSLCertificateKeyFile "&ltuptime<uptime_dir>/apache/conf/uptime_ssl_server.key"\t
</VirtualHost>
&ltVirtualHost
<VirtualHost *:9999>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
 RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>

Update uptime.conf

Open the &ltuptime<uptime_dir>/uptime.conf file for editing and change the httpContext parameter (which begins with "httpContext=http://") to relfect the use of SSL:

httpContext=https://&ltServer<Server_Hostname>:9999

Restart the services

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