Installing SSL on Windows
Problem
You want to install Apache with SSL on Microsoft Windows.
Solution
Obtain XAMPP from http://apachefriends.org and install that.
Discussion
As was mentioned in the previous recipe, it is certainly possible to build Apache with SSL from source on Microsoft Windows. However, to be honest, this is beyond the expertise of most of us.
Fortunately, the kind folks at ApacheFriends have made available a binary distribution called XAMPP, which includes, among other things, Apache with mod_ssl. The package also includes MySQL, PHP, and Perl, some of the commonly used tools in Web site development.
So, save yourself some pain, take advantage of the great work that has been done by the ApacheFriends guys, and install the XAMPP package.
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