mod_SSL

mod_SSL is an apache module to enable the use of ssl with apache. We can download it from http://www.modssl.org. Now we can start compiling this module:

• Compile mod_ssl We have to expecify where are the sources of the apache server, and if we have a previous SSL certificates, we have to expecify its location to the configure command:

  cd mod_ssl-2.8.11-1.3.27 
  ./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.27 
             (--with-crt=/usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt)
             (--with-key=/usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key)
  

If we don't want to install the mod_perl module, we can start the compilation of apache, as the configure command say us at the end of the execution of the ./configure command:

cd ../apache_1.3.27/ 
SSL_BASE=/path/to/openssl ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=ssl 
make 
make install

This process will install apache in the directory /usr/local/apache. If we want to install mod_perl, we have to avoid the previous step, and continue with the next step.