I'm looking into setting up an Apache2 with mod_ssl on UNIX. Basically
I want to be able to send HTTPS requests into the server.
With some research and reading on the news group, I noticed the
following:
1- I couldn't find mod_ssl download for apache2 on unix. The latest
download from the website modssl.org only has downloads for apache
1.3.x, there is no mention to apache2, even when I searched third party
module download.
2- Most apache users seems to compile apache from scratch to get
mod_ssl into it.
3- Did not see any documentation or trace on how to install mod_ssl as
a DSO

My question is, is there a way to install mod_ssl (and the other
required open ssl libraries) as DSOs or it has to compiled into apache
when apache is built from scratch?

Any reference to documentation or reading material regarding this issue
is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

"Ahab" <eabouzou@yahoo.com> writes:

> 3- Did not see any documentation or trace on how to install mod_ssl as
> a DSO
>
> My question is, is there a way to install mod_ssl (and the other
> required open ssl libraries) as DSOs or it has to compiled into apache
> when apache is built from scratch?

I checked on my Linux RedHat based distro and on my Debian, and both use
mod_ssl as a DSO.
Maybe you could check how these two build their apache packages?

> Any reference to documentation or reading material regarding this issue
> is greatly appreciated.

Marc

Ahab wrote:

> 1- I couldn't find mod_ssl download for apache2 on unix. The latest

Apache 2 includes mod_ssl as standard.

Apache 1.x was more of a problem for two reasons. One was the US crypto
laws, the apache home site being in the US. The other was the 1.x
architecture, which has to be severely hacked to support SSL,
adding complexity.

--
Nick Kew

Hi.

I would like to install Apache2 with mod_ssl on UNIX too. But as he
said, I didn't find mod_ssl for Apache2. In http://www.modssl.org, the
latest release of mod_ssl is only for Apache 1.3.33!

You mentioned ... " Apache 2 includes mod_ssl as standard. "

So you mean that we can build up Apache2 with mod_ssl ?? I don't want
to use Apache1.x because of its architecture. I prefer version 2. To be
clear my point, I would like to know whether building apache2 with
mod_ssl is better than building apache1 with mod_ssl.

"mitchell" <mitchell_1078@yahoo.com> writes:

> So you mean that we can build up Apache2 with mod_ssl ?? I don't want

It's in the apache 2 tarball