Hello Jody,
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, Jody Cleveland wrote...

> Hello,

>> You enable SSL in your webserver; add the SM includes to it (I'm
>> using Apache as a sample here). Now, when you access the SM
>> webpage, you do so using "https", not "http".

> That's the part I'm confused on. What do I do to get that page to
> use ssl?

You have to compile, and configure apache to use the SSL certificates.
Take a look on the mod_ssl site (http://www.modssl.org) for details on
how to compile apache with mod_ssl, and some very basic examples.  You
might want to take a look at:

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Compile-HOWTO/

For a basic idea on doing things like that too.  Once you've got
apache compiled with SSL, you have to turn it on in the configuration
file (SSLEngine On I think, or something like that).
 
>> You mention no specs of your system, but on Linux, you would
>> install apache-ssl (which would give you a generic SSL cert, BTW),

> I'm using redhat 8, which has Apache 2, and openssl. Using that, I
> was able to generate a key and certificate.

As I said above, you'll now need to compile apache to use SSL before
your certificates are of any use to you.

> Sorry for the ignorance, I'm very new to ssl, and it's seeming a bit
> overwhelming.

It is when you first get started, but once all up and running it does
get better ;)

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