May 19th, 2010 
Aneesh Go to Apache source files and compile it as shown below # ./configure –enable-module=so –enable-module=ssl –enable-module=mod_rewrite Youc an add whatever module you needed Now go to openssl folder and compile and install ( you can do this same by using yum or apt-get command) To compile and install OpenSSL do the following commands # sh config -fPIC
# make
# make install At this time you can compile your PHP also. To do that run following commands # ./configure –with-apache=../apache_1.3.41 –with-gd –with-zlib-dir –with-jpeg-dir –with-png-dir –with-freetype-dir –enable-gd-native-ttf –with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib/ –with-ttf –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql –with-curl –disable-soap –with-openssl –with-xmlrpc –enable-ftp –with-xsl –with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config # make # make install Compile Apache and install Go to the apache Directory and runn following commands # ./config.status
# make
# make certificate ( This step will be asked some inputs from you for your self signed SSL certificate)
# $ make install Now you have installed the apache server with a self signed SSL certificate. Now it is the time to add the location of the .CRT file and .KEY file in your apache configuration file. From the above steps you can see the location of these files. Copy those paths. Now open your httpd.conf file and add the following line Listen 443 Now create a virtual directory which will listen the port 443 <VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:443>
ServerName www.example.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key
</VirtualHost> Now save the file and restart your Apache server # apachectl stop # apachectl startssl
Enjoy
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