Pound : SSL Settings

Pound : SSL Settings 2015/06/09

Configure Pound with SSL. The connection between Pound and Clients are encrypted with SSL. ( Pound - backends are normal ) This example based on the environment like follows. | --------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- | +-------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ |10.0.0.30 |10.0.0.51 |10.0.0.52 |10.0.0.53 +------+-----+ +-------+------+ +-------+------+ +-------+------+ | Frontend | | Backend#1 | | Backend#2 | | Backend#3 | | Pound | | Web Server | | Web Server | | Web Server | +------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+

[1]	Create SSL certificates.

[root@dlp ~]#  cd /etc/pki/tls/certs  [root@dlp certs]#  openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem -out /etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem  Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key ......++++++ .......++++++ writing new private key to '/etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem' ----- You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. ----- Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]: JP # country State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]: Hiroshima     # state Locality Name (eg, city) []: Hiroshima # city Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]: GTS     # company Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Server World     # department Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: dlp.server.world     # server's FQDN Email Address []: xxx@server.world # admin email [root@dlp certs]#  chmod 600 pound.pem

[2]	Configure Pound for SSL.

[root@dlp ~]#  vi /etc/pound.cfg # add like follows ListenHTTP Address 0.0.0.0 Port 80 End ListenHTTPS Address 0.0.0.0 Port 443 Cert "/etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem" End [root@dlp ~]#  systemctl restart pound

[3]	Make sure all works fine to access to the frontend server from a Client with HTTPS like follows.