Debian/Ubuntu Apache2 + PHP5 + Mysql + SSL

First let’s grab the packages we need for a basic LAMP setup:

apt-get install apache2 php5-cgi libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql php5-common apache2.2-common ssl-cert

If using Ubuntu, be sure to install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

apache2.2-common and ssl-cert are needed to generate a ssl cert

make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf apache.crt
mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
mv apache.crt /etc/apache2/ssl

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/ssl.conf ssl.conf
ln -s ../mods-available/ssl.load ssl.load

Make sure /etc/apache2/ports.conf is listening on 443

Listen *:443

In your 000-default file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled (or where ever your VirtualHosts are managed) Change:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>

to

NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:80>

Add a site for SSL:

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/wwws
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/wwws>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

By default, the User/group is www-data so make sure all your website files are owned by this user/group.

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/wwws/

Will accomplish this

All website files should be located in /var/www and /var/wwws (you can choose different directories, of course, like /home/www but make sure you change the config)