I'm trying to get SSL up and running on my Slack 10.2 server. I followed the instructions I found here on the forum, but at start up am getting errors.

ssl_engine_log:
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:41 01260] [info] Server: Apache/1.3.33, Interface: mod_ssl/2.8.24, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7g
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:41 01260] [info] Init: 1st startup round (still not detached)
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:41 01260] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:41 01260] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 1160 bytes of entropy
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:41 01260] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits)
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:42 01260] [info] Init: Configuring temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits)
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:43 04876] [error] Child could not open SSLMutex lockfile /var/log/apache/ssl_mutex.1260 (System error follows)
[06/Sep/2006 21:11:43 04876] [error] System: No such file or directory (errno: 2)

error_log:
[Wed Sep 6 21:27:41 2006] [error] mod_ssl: Child could not open SSLMutex lockfile /var/log/apache/ssl_mutex.1260 (System error follows)
[Wed Sep 6 21:27:41 2006] [error] System: No such file or directory (errno: 2)

But the file does exist:
root@spaz:/var/log/apache# ls -l
total 6200
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 634214 2006-09-06 20:57 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139117 2006-09-06 21:28 error_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5551212 2006-09-06 21:28 ssl_engine_log
-rw------- 1 nobody root 0 2006-09-06 21:28 ssl_mutex.1260
-rw------- 1 nobody root 0 2006-09-06 21:28 ssl_scache.dir
-rw------- 1 nobody root 0 2006-09-06 21:28 ssl_scache.pag

"netstat -tpan" shows port 80 running and it works fine. Port 443 is not running.

I am stumped, but not sure where to look next.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Does it have write access for /var/log/apache/ssl_mutex.1260 ?

For my server, Apache runs as user and group httpd. Here are the permissions for /var/log/apache:

What are your permissions and who does Apache run as?

EDIT: fixed to sound better

Thanks for the reply!

My Apache runs as "nobody". The authority on the /var/log/apache directory is:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-06 21:28 apache/

This must be OK however, because all of the other logs, like the access log, error log and mod ssl log are all written to just fine - or else I would not have the error information I printed in my first post.

You also asked about the access to ssl_mutex.1260. That was shown in the first post as:
-rw------- 1 nobody root 0 2006-09-06 21:28 ssl_mutex.1260
"Nobody" has write access.

Thanks again.