[FX.php List] [OFF] Apache 2.2 SSL setup difficulties

[Dale Bengston]

Hmm, crashes are generally not hardware-related, in my experience,  
unless maybe you have a bad stick of memory or something. Our Mac mini  
is a workhorse. I'd have to say it has the best ROI of any Mac we  
have, and we have quite a few. That said, I'd never use a Mac mini as  
a front-line production server - it essentially has a laptop hard  
drive in it. But the mini sure is nice to beat around as a development  
box.

Anyway, I'm sorry your experience with the mini is not as good. I wish  
I had five more of them... including one in my living room hooked up  
to my television!

Maybe time for a wipe-and-reinstall-everything on your mini?

Dale

On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Derrick Fogle wrote:

> I've got a Mac Mini doing SSL, but it's still running Panther  
> (Apache 1.x). I followed the instructions on the Entropy website,  
> but I tell ya, I've had lots of problems with the SSL cert on this  
> thing. Apache does a log roll and soft restart every Sat. AM, and  
> every few months, the thing just dies on the soft restart -  
> complaining that there's no valid SSL cert. The cause is supposed to  
> be the fact that the key file is password protected, and it can't be  
> re-read on a soft restart.
>
> I can't tell you how many times I've reinstalled the cert, created a  
> non-password key file for it, etc., but I always end up with the  
> same problem: far before the cert is due to expire, it just stops  
> working on the soft restart. A hard restart always works though.
>
> My personal opinion is that Mac Mini's are crap. I've got 10 times  
> more problems with Mac Minis locking up and crashing than I do any  
> other Mac I see deployed. Not that the poor quality of Mac Minis are  
> your problem, but I just had to throw that out there. They are NOT  
> even in the ballpark of server-level quality. If you use them as a  
> server, you're in for a lot of trouble.
>
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Hi Troy,
>>
>> In the past, Apple has provided very detailed instructions for  
>> generating KEYs, CSRs and CRTs and all that SSL good stuff. I don't  
>> know if they've continued with Apache 2.0, but here's what I used  
>> years ago:
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/internet/serverside/modssl.html
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:
>>
>>> A few days ago I mentioned that we got a Mac Mini (Leopard) with  
>>> Apache 2.2 preinstalled (they just ship that way) and have managed  
>>> to install (with help from here) PHP 5.2.5 with GD, which I had to  
>>> do because there's no GD in the PHP installation that ships with  
>>> Leopard. That appears to be working.
>>>
>>> The end goal is getting a secure server set up, and I had thought  
>>> that enabling SSL in the Apache 2.2 would be easy, since (at least  
>>> I think) all the modules needed are preinstalled and just need to  
>>> be turned on. I also had thought that the instructions were in the  
>>> Apache docs... but now I realize that I don't understand enough.  
>>> Maybe they the instructions tell me how to set up different  
>>> flavors of SSL, but not the basic on/off. The variations I've  
>>> tried in httpd.config have just made Apache stop working. Glad I  
>>> made backups first.
>>>
>>> What I want to do is have this one machine be my Apache server  
>>> doing both http and https, and also have the WPE on that machine.  
>>> Another is the database server.
>>>
>>> I've studied a number of forum archives for several days now, but  
>>> can't find the answer, so I thought I'd finally ask here -- how do  
>>> I do it -- or where's the best place to ask?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> -Troy
>>>
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> Derrick
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