From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 1:33:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2E737B406 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C619AE7; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:33:06 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble installing apache and modssl Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:33:06 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010905083306.C619AE7@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:50 pm, Jason McReynolds wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.1 and I am trying to install apache with > modssl. I am trying to do it as root (like I usually do to install > things), but when I get to where I try to configure apache (I am > following the INSTALL doc that comes with modssl and using the APACI > installation. I want to be able to use mysql and php)and set the > SSL_BASE=../openssl-0.9.6b I get the message that the command SSL_BASE > is not found (I can't use it anywhere). Why can't I do this as > root???? If I su to my user I can do this, but then I have problems > because of directory permissions. Even if I fix the permissions and > get apache started with out the ssl I get the page that ssl has been > installed, but if I try to run apache with startssl I get an error > message and it says that the "startssl" option is not available (even > though after the apache installation it said that I could start ssl > with the startssl option. I'm confused :-C). I am a little baffled and > I tried this once before and was unsuccessful. Could someone please > help me to get this up and running. I can give you more info if this > is not sufficient. Thanks! > > Jason You should install apache+mod_ssl from the ports, then add mod_php3 or 4 (you can configure that for whatever db you're using during the make. Make sure on apache you do a seperate "make" "make certificate" and "make install. There's a readme at the end of make that will help you set up your certs. I've installed this combination on several machines (both 4-STABLE and 5.0-CURRENT) and had no problems with any of them. Beech Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message