A permanent, publicly accessible PowerMedia XMS should use a valid certificate from a trusted certificate authority. A large number of vendors provide security certificates. Use the following guidelines when installing a certificate from your preferred vendor:
Upon installation, the fully qualified domain name of the PowerMedia XMS is xms.localhost. The self-signed certificate supplied with PowerMedia XMS uses this name. Therefore, change the server name/domain.
The web server used for the Console is Apache, version 2.2.15. There is also a lighttpd server on the system, but it is used for the RESTful interface to PowerMedia XMS and can be ignored.
Secure HTTPS access is provided by mod_ssl, the OpenSSL interface to Apache.
The configuration file for the SSL Virtual Host is /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.
Entries to modify when a purchased certificate is activated include:
- SSLCertificateFile
- SSLCertificateKeyFile
- SSLCertificateChainFile