> I've been maintaining a set of instructions for people to
> download and install some components to quickly set up an
> SSL-enabled Web server:
> http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circumventor-instructions.html
> Unfortunately OpenSA is the only free Web server I know of
> that supports SSL right out of the box. (Apache requires
> you to download and install separate modules, but the
> instructions I'm writing are aimed at novice users and
> it's not realistic to expect most of them to download an
> Apache module and install it themselves.)
There are some Win32 all-in-one binary packages, accessible through http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/perl/win32-bin/ that contain Perl/Apache/mod_perl/mod_ssl.
Ron Savage pointed out these instructions for installing Perl and Apache from those packages:
http://savage.net.au/Perl/html/upgrade-perl-apache.html
Unfortunately I think the long list of steps is still too intimidating for most of the intermediate users that our instructions are targeted at. Most of them probably wouldn't know how to set environment variables, for example. OpenSA and ActivePerl, which we've been using, install with just a few clicks. I'll be looking for a Perl/Apache combination that is super-easy to install and can be used with mod_perl; if anyone knows of one, please let me know... Thanks!
-Bennett
