May 19th, 2010 
Aneesh I am going to give you the steps to install mod_ssl on an Apache server by compiling the source.
Download the following packages
1. apache_1.3.14.tar.gz http://www.apache.org
2. openssl-0.9.6.tar.gz http://www.openssl.org
3. mod_ssl-2.7.1-1.3.14.tar.gz http://www.modssl.org
I have created a folder called /downloads/src and downloaded all packages here
Go to Apache source files and compile it as shown below
# ./configure –enable-module=so [...]
February 15th, 2010 Aneesh When starting httpd ( apache server ) it may ask a password to load the SSL certificate. And you may receive a message like given below
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[root@server SSL]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: Apache/2.2.11 mod_ssl/2.2.11 (Pass Phrase Dialog)
Some of your private key files are encrypted for security reasons.
In order to read them you have [...]
November 26th, 2009 Aneesh You may get some error like given below in Mac machines when you browse SSL pages
Safari can’t verify the identity of the website “example.com” The certificate for this website was signed by an unknown certifying authority. You might be connectng tp a website that is preteneing to be “domainname.com”, which could put your confidential information [...]
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