On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, William Scates wrote:

> I'm in the process of building a new secure web server, moving all the
> respective sites over, and doing some upgrading in the process.
> 
> After I installed apache/openssl/modssl, I made the necessary changes to
> the
> httpd.conf file, and on apachectl configtest it gave an OK on the
> syntax.
> But when I attempted a apachectl startssl I get the following error:
> secure1[116] :/usr/local/apache/bin # ./apachectl startssl
> Syntax error on line 1049 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
> SSLCertificateKeyFile: file '/usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/mykey.key'
> not exists or empty
> ./apachectl startssl: httpd could not be started
>               ((Yes, the path is correct))
> Now I'm not sure what I've done wrong here.  'mykey.key' is an older key
> (generated a couple years ago by Stronghold), but works fine on the
> 'legacy' box.
> 
> Any ideas?  Is there a compatability problem?  Or might the permissions,
> or something of that nature be wrong?

Yes, if the file exists, then check the permissions!

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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