Hi,

I have been running apache etc on my webserver for a while now and I have decided that https is the way to go: the webmail and mailing list managment warez that I run could benefit from it. The standard slackware httpd.conf contains a call to mod_ssl.conf and that file contains a bunch of settings including a virtual server that uses port 443 etc. What I can't seem to do is get https to actually start. I have an inkling (which may be utterly wrong) that it has something to do with having to make the <ifdefine SSL>come true. I tried to do "apachectl startssl" after "apacheconfig" suggested it but this option clearly doesn't exist in my version of apache (1.3.26 or whatever current/old is). If anyone could throw any light on this topic that would be great: even a working config file would be great.
Thanks
spook
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try commenting out the If statements

Thanks for taking the time to reply: I have been away and therefore have only just taken up the problem again.
I am slightly unclear as to what you mean. Should I remove the "if"'s from the <IfDefine>'s or did you mean seperate "if"'s that may be in the config file? This seems like a pretty retarded way for a config to be set up: presumably there ought to be a way to specify SSL so that the condition necessary for these <ifdefines> would come to pass.
cheers
spook
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#<IfDefine>



#</IfDefine>



Yes it should be another way, I was too lazy to find it and did mine like this

Thank you for your swift reply, although I have still not got everything working yet, it is clear that I am geting closer as I am getting error messages in /var/adm/apache/ssl_engine_log

[10/Jan/2003 02:36:26 32732] [info] Server: Apache/1.3.26, Interface: mod_ssl/2.8.10, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.6e
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: 2nd startup round (already detached)
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: Reinitializing OpenSSL library
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: Configuring temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits)
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: Configuring temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits)
[10/Jan/2003 02:36:28 32733] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: 1st restart round (already detached)
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Reinitializing OpenSSL library
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 1160 bytes of entropy
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Configuring temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits)
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Configuring temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits)
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [info] Init: Configuring server hysteria.spc.org:443 for SSL protocol
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [error] Init: (hysteria.spc.org:443) Ops, no RSA or DSA server certificate found?!
[10/Jan/2003 02:38:58 32733] [error] Init: (hysteria.spc.org:443) You have to perform a *full* server restart when you added or removed a certificate and/or key file


Have you any idea how I could fix these errors? I generated a key but I have never been asked for the passwd when starting apache etc. I think I used apacheconfig to do this but now this doesn't run (wierdness!)
I appreciate the mundane nature of these questions and am gratefull for the repsonses.
cheers
spook
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these are the only keys I'm using


SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key