Basic SSL questions - ore or two configuration files ??

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Date: 26 Sep 2004 04:17:38 -0700

I wish to install a web server supporting SSL on a Sun SPARCstation 20
running Solaris 9. The default 1.3.27 Apache supplied with Solaris 9
does not support SSL.

I downloaded a pre-compiled Apache 2.0.51 from
http://www.sunfreeware.com/, along with openssl and other packages
listed as being required.

The web page at http://www.sunfreeware.com/, states Apache 2.0.51 was
compiled as:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-mods-shared=all
--enable-ssl=shared --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl

(there are modules of course too).

There is a file /usr/apache2/conf/ssl.conf Is one supposed to 'merge'
this into the main httpd.conf file, or are they to remain as two
sepparate files? I see examples of httpd.conf files on the web, where
there are SSL related items in httpd.conf. Yet if I add the contents
of ssl.conf on to the end of httpd.conf, the server complains at the
very first SSL releated line it comes across.

webserver2 # ./apachectl -t
Syntax error on line 1121 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLRandomSeed', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a
module not included in the server configuration

Also, if I want SSL support, should one start the server as

# ./apachectl start

or

# ./apachectl startssl ??
 

or does one have to do both operations?

The latter actually crashes

webserver2 # ./apachectl startssl
[Sun Sep 26 12:10:55 2004] [crit] [Sun Sep 26 12:10:55 2004] file
vhost.c, line 189, assertion "rv == APR_SUCCESS" failed
Abort - core dumped

but that is I guess another problem. I'll try to sort out the reasons
for the crash once I know what I am supposed to be doing.

David Kirkby

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