Shared mod_ssl problems

[Larry Cotton]

Hi

I'm attempting to load mod_ssl into apache as a dynamic module.

I am using apache 2.0.44 (which comes with its own ssl module) and OpenSSL version 0.9.7a.

I'm using red hat linux ver 7.1. uname -r gives the following output :
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown.

I have configured and built apache to enable shared objects and include ssl and have set up the configuration file to use ssl (this might be incorrect, but I don't believe that would be related to the problem I have here).

When I try to start apache I get an error message :

Syntax error on line 251 of /home/Larry/WebServer/Apache/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /home/Larry/WebServer/Apache/modules/mod_ssl.so into server: undefined symbol: X509_free

From what I can gather this is because I've built a shared mod_ssl against against a static OpenSSL.

Ideally I would like to link ssl dynamically and I guess the solution is to use shared openssl libraries (libcrypto.so and libssl.so). Does anyone know :
a) How (or even if) I can build a shared OpenSSL (or where I can find out)
b) How I link these shared libraries into apache (can I use the standard LoadModule directive for the OpenSSL libs, or do I need some special SSL configuration ?) - or where I can find this out.

Cheers
Larry