Re: Apache with SSL Issue

Kevin Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ssl.user
Organization Netsmith Limited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Probably the best think to do is add the absolute path to the files as:

 SSLCertificateFile C:/Program Files/Apache2/conf/ssl/servername.cert
 SSLCertificateKeyFile C:/Program Files/Apache2/conf/ssl/servername.key

The above paths are assumed to be correct.

Kevin

Asad Habib wrote:
> Hello. Thanks for your input. I have tried your suggestion already and 
> it yielded the same Syntax error as mentioned below and the 
> SSLCertificateFile error was as follows:
>
> SSLCertificateFile: Invalid file path conf/ssl/servername.cert
>
> - Asad
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>> Well, I think as Apache2 is the root, you path is wrong for the 
>> certificate file, as the error shows, you config should be as follows:
>>
>> <VirtualHost server-ip-address:443>
>>  SSLEngine On
>>  SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/servername.cert
>>  SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/servername.key
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Asad Habib wrote:
>>> Hello. I am running Windows XP and I am trying to make Apache2 run 
>>> with mod_ssl. I have a certificate file and certificate key file in 
>>> place but when I run Apache I get the following error:
>>>
>>> Syntax error on line 973 of C:/Program Files/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>>> SSLCertificateFile: file 'C:/conf/ssl/servername.cert' does not 
>>> exist or is empty
>>>
>>> The code for my virtual host directive is as follows:
>>>
>>> <VirtualHost server-ip-address:443>
>>>    SSLEngine On
>>>    SSLCertificateFile /conf/ssl/servername.cert
>>>    SSLCertificateKeyFile /conf/ssl/servername.key
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>
>>> I lot of folks have had similar problems as I found out through 
>>> Google, but I have not come across any viable solutions. Your help 
>>> would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Asad
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