certificate

[Henning, Brian]

Hello-
I am trying to run a secure webserver Apache2.0.39 on my freebsd 4.5
machine. I am at the point I need to create the certificate. 

so far i have installed Apache2.0.39 and then i tried the following command:

openssl req -config openssl.cnf -new -out my-server.csr
Using configuration from openssl.cnf
error on line 1 of openssl.cnf
52353:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or
directory:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/bio/b
ss_file.c:104:fopen('openssl.cnf','rb')
52353:error:2006D002:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:system
lib:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/bio/bss_fil
e.c:106:
52353:error:0E064002:configuration file routines:CONF_load:system
lib:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/conf/conf_l
ib.c:91:

can someone point out what i am doing wrong?
thanks,
brian
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mod_ssl newbie

[Henning, Brian]

Hello,
I am new to the ssl world. Right now I am running w2k with apache 1.3.23 web
server. I downloaded the mod_ssl package from the website. I changed the
port on my apache web server to 443. On a high level what do i need to do to
create a secure web server? I guess my real problem is i don't know what ssl
does for me. What i am looking for is something that can password protect
the files on my server. I want to let specific people to access my site and
that is it. They must have a password to use it. Is mod_ssl what i want or
should i be looking else where?
thanks for any input,
brian
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