Thanks to all who responded! This:
On 10-Nov-99 Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> You have not mentioned where you put your private key by using the
>> directive SSLCertificateKeyFile. Have you placed your keyfile to an
>> appropriate place and pointed SSLCertificateKeyFile to this file.
was the answer. I copied the key from where it was to where it needed to be
and added an "SSLCertificateKeyFile" directive to the apache config. After the
mandatory forgetting that a passphrase would be demanded followed by the
mandatory forgetting of the passphrase, my little self-signed system seems to
be working.
Since the message about "no start line" seems to pop up in newbies' message
regularly, I nominate it for the FAQ. Another one for the FAQ (unless it's been
obviated in later versions than I have) is the somewhat non-obvious message
sequence that happens if the passphrase isn't being read properly (or at all):
[Wed Nov 10 14:46:37 1999] [crit] (5)Input/output error: mod_ssl: Failed to
read private key file /etc/httpd/mykey.pem
[Wed Nov 10 14:46:37 1999] [error] SSLeay: error:0906406D:PEM
routines:DEF_CALLBACK:problems getting password
[Wed Nov 10 14:46:37 1999] [error] SSLeay: error:0906A068:PEM
routines:PEM_do_header:bad password read
It looks like a file problem, but isn't.
Again, thanks for the help! And I promise to upgrade :-)
Regards, K.
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