After installing LAMP server, I want to be able to use secure SSL connection to access my services like phpmyadmin using https://my.ip.address/phpmyadmin.
To achieve this, ssl module has to be enabled and apache needs to be told, how to handle traffic from port 443, this is done by enabling default-ssl site.
$sudo a2enmod ssl
$sudo a2ensite default-ssl
$sudo service apache2 restartAfter restart, you should be able to access your web server using self-signed SSL certificate, browsers should warn you in red colors about this certificate, because it is not signed by any authority like Verysign or GeoTrust, … but do now worry, you may trust it only if you trust yourself, I trust me and my server, so it is good enough for me for now on.
Firewall
If you have firewall enabled, you should allow incoming TCP connection on port 443.
$ sudo ufw allow 443/tcp Newbies watch out using ufw, if you enable firewall on remote machine and do not allow incoming TCP on port 22, you may end up disconnected from your server!