[TriLUG] Apache2 SSL

Owen Berry oberry at trilug.org
Mon Apr 17 11:56:31 EDT 2006


I can't comment on SLES 9, but on a RHEL 4 box I have
/etc/sysconfig/httpd, which has a section as follows:

# To pass additional options (for instance, -D definitions) to the
# httpd binary at startup, set OPTIONS here.
#
#OPTIONS=

Maybe you have the same system config file, or similar?

Owen

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:59:40AM -0400, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
> I have a SLES 9 box running Apache 2.0.54 happily. However, I would like to setup SSL an be able to access pages on the box using https://. Easy enough I thought. I looked in the listen.conf file and saw the following:
> 
> Listen 80
> 
> <IfDefine SSL>
>     <IfDefine !NOSSL>
>         <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
>             Listen 443
>         </IfModule>
>     </IfDefine>
> </IfDefine>
> 
> This should mean that the server will listen on port 443, however it isn't. If I add a Listen 443 right under the Listen 80 it works. So, that got me wondering what this <ifdefine ssl> does and why it wasn't working. I did the google search and found a couple of things, one which mentioned apache2 should be started with the -DSSL option (as seen in a ps awx | grep http), but I just see the following:
> 
> 21671 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> 
> So, what do I need to do to get apache2 to start on SLES with SSL support? I know I can just add the Listen 443 option manually, but this has become more of a quest for learning what the <ifdefine ssl> is for and why it isn't working.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Brian
> 



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