On Tue, Sep 29, 1998, Ted Arden wrote:
> I am fairly new to the mod_ssl game, and am trying to get together
> a Secure Server for testing purposes and perhaps future ideas for
> the technology.
>
> I ahve installed a LOT of web servers in the past including the piece of
> garbage Oracle Web Server, Netscape's stuff, the old CERN and NCSA stuff
> etc.
>
> Anyway, I followed the step - by - step instructions, which were very
> good, by the way, but ran into some difficulties.
>
> I am installing on a Dec Alpha (OSF 4.0) with the following compon.:
> SSLeay-0.9.0b.tar.gz
> apache_1.3.2.tar.gz
> mod_ssl-2.0.11-1.3.2.tar.gz
> rsaref2.tar.gz
>
> A couple of things really:
>
> 1) in your FAQ, you mentioned an app called "s_client" in the
> SSLeay dist. that is used for testing the 443 port. I couldn't
> find the app.
It's under SSLeay-0.9.0b/apps/.
> 2) running the "make certification" produce the following errors:
> ======
> $ make certificate
>
> Generating test certificate signed by Snake Oil CA [TEST]
> WARNING: Do not use this for real-life/production systems
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> STEP 1: Generating RSA private key (1024 bit) [server.key]
> 1051156 semi-random bytes loaded
> Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus
> ............../support/mkcert.sh: 26505 Memory fault - core dumped
> mkcert.sh:Error: Failed to generate RSA private key
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
>[...]
> Can you help!?!??! PPPPllleese.
This is a SSLeay problem, because the RSA key generation which memory faults
for you is the "ssleay genrsa" call. Can it be that you built SSLeay with
just "Configure gcc" instead of "Configure alpha-gcc" or other platform
dependend names? For some systems the generic "gcc" platform doesn't work.
Run SSLeay's "Configure" script without arguments to see the list of
supported platforms. Then choose the one describing your system best.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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