[ Davide Bianchi ]

> On 2006-10-05, Bob <bobsaila@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm upgrading openssl on a number of servers and obviously this
>> involves re-compiling Apache.
>
> Well... if your mod_ssl is using dynamic linking, it shouldn't be
> necessary to recompile it, just upgrade the libraries.

A caveat to this should be "if the two versions are binary
compatible", and OpenSSL versions frequently aren't. My advice is also
to try upgrading before recompiling Apache, but be prepared to have to
recompile even though it might be a minor upgrade (say, from 0.9.7k to
0.9.7l).


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee