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Problems with https and Apache

I'm running Slackware Linux 10.1 with Apache as a web server. The system was originally configured with OpenSSL and ModSSL.

I'm trying to get a secure server running, (https), and have been unsucessful in getting it to work. What am I missing? I'd appreciate any help in getting this to work!

Here is a link to my complete httpd.conf file:
http://magiteck.milleniumcare.com/~jared/httpd.txt

Thanks in advance!!

Jared

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Promethyl

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jericotolentino

Hi,

There's a similar question to yours. Browse through it and see what applies to you case.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21379515/how-do-I-make-ssl-stuff-work-on-apache-2-0.html

Hope this helps.

Promethyl

I forgo any points. Close at your leisure.

magitek

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Sorry I forgot to close the question! Promethyl was right - I was not initalizing the program with SSL.

The instructions posted on how to start with SSL were not completely applicable to my Slackware system though. Here's what I did:

I had to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd file.

It originally showed:
case "$1" in
'start')
/usr/sbin/apachectl start;;
'stop')
/usr/sbin/apachectl stop ;;
'restart')
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart ;;
*)
echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac

I had to modify it to show:

case "$1" in
'start')
/usr/sbin/apachectl startssl ;;
'stop')
/usr/sbin/apachectl stop ;;
'restart')
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart ;;
*)
echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac

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The program required: /usr/sbin/apachectl startssl as the command to load apache with ssl support. It had been loading with only: /usr/sbin/apachectl start

That's what caused my problem.

Just thought I'd post what worked in case anybody else looks at the question with a similar problem :)