severity 267477 important thanks Come on people, is that really THAT COMPLICATED to add a simple guide to new admins to enable such base functionality like SSL? Is this Debian or LFS or why T.F. is a such basic thing so complicated? Even Gentoo guys managed to solve it in a sane manner, you get correct docs and most things are already preconfigured. For Debian, there is NOTHING in README.Debian (or is hidden in some obscure other file that is not easy to find). Fsck that. Even howtos like http://www.ianmiller.net/article.php?id=13 do not work out of the box [1].
Look at Exim4 maintainers. Understandable guides to enable things like TLS. Simple. Userfriendly. Tested for fresh installations, no falls and traps. The stuff for SSL setup in Apache2 packages makes me really pissed. [1] Reason: Starting web server: Apache2Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ssl: Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration <following the usual logic> I guess there is some module I need to add and I remmeber something about a debconf setup... or so... but where was it again?! I cannot find it! No hint! No README.Debian.modules or such thing. That sucks! Should I need to install some doc package? Let me see... Oh, no hints in apache2-doc, just the pure upstream documentation, and some examples/*. Does it tell me more about the SSL setup? NO! Looks like a copy of the default file from the howto above, something I did before, and that does not work. And such user-unfriendly crap is to be released as "stable" for the next three years now? That's ene of the moments when I feel ashamed of beeing a DD. Eduard. PS: And no, I do not smoke at all. My current mood is not influenced by any kind of drug (except of some coffein). If you do not believe me, take an average admin (without much/any apache2 config know-how) and watch him setting up SSL. -- Wenn morgens fr�h der Wecker rasselt, ist der sch�nste Tag vermasselt.
