Grasp Ruby on Rails

I had to do a little digging, but setting up SSL on your server from Slicehost after launching it with the Deprec gem is not so bad. The issues caused by deprec that make these instructions for setting up SSL on Ubuntu Feisty not work are:

1. Deprec install Apache2 to a non-standard location. Which means file locations are all mixed up.
2. Deprec does not install the a2enmod method for Apache. This causes an error ("a2enmod not found") when it comes time to enable SSL in the Apache config files.

No big deal, we can handle this. First step is to SSH into your slice and run the command

sudo apt-get install apache2.2-common

Now you should have a2enmod at your disposal. Follow all the instruction from the SliceHost wiki for setting up SSL on Ubuntu Feisty with Apache, but with three caveats:

1. replace all references to

   /etc/apache2

   with

   /usr/local/apache2

2. to restart Apache server, run

   sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

   instead of

   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

   Optionally, you may also run this from your home computer instead

   cap apache_restart

3. you have no ports.conf, so add port 443 to your httpd.conf

   Listen 80
   Listen 443

The rest of SliceHost's excellent tutorial with these minor tweaks should have you up and running in no time.