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From: ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas Schreiber)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Not able to run Apache-SSL. Please help.
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:45:49 +0200
Organization: infodirekt, Munich, Germany
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I've compiled apache-SSL 1.0.1 and SSLeay-0.4.5b on FreeBSD 2.1.
Running the test produces this error from 'verify':

    error 9 at 1:certificate has expired

Nevertheless, I have started the server. But Netscape
refuses to connect and in the error_log I see this message:

    error:15019001 lib(21) func(25) reason(short read)

OK, I suppose that has to do with a missing certificate. My
questions:

- Isn't it possible to run apache-SSL without a certificate?
- I don't know much about all this administrative stuff behind SSL.
  From the docs I could not figure out how to help myself.
  Can anyone give me a pointer where to find an explanation what
  to do to get apache-SSL run?
- Is a certificate from Verisign necessary to run it as a
  secure server?

Thanks
Thomas

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