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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

by Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Config file

You now have to think about the Config files for the site. A sample Config file will be found at .../apache_1.3.XX/SSLconf/conf, which tells you all you need to know about Apache-SSL.

It is possible that this Config file tells you more than you want to know right away, so a much simpler one can be found at site.ssl/apache_1.3. (Apache v2 is sufficiently different, so we have started over at site.ssl/apache_2.) This illustrates a fairly common sort of site where you have an unsecured element for the world at large, which it accesses in the usual way by surfing to http://www.butterthlies.com,and a secure part (here, notionally, for the salesmen) which is accessed through https://sales.butterthlies.com,followed by a username and password — which, happily, is now encrypted. In the real world, the encrypted part might be a set of maintenance pages, statistical reports, etc. for access by people involved with the management of the web site, or it might be an inner sanctum accessible only by subscribers, or it might have to do with the transfer of money, or whatever should be secret...

User webserv Group webserv LogLevel notice LogFormat "%h %l %t \"%r\" %s %b %a %{user-agent}i %U" sidney SSLCacheServerPort 1234 SSLCacheServerPath /usr/src/apache/apache_1.3.19/src/modules/ssl/gcache SSLCertificateFile /usr/src/apache/apache_1.3.19/SSLconf/conf/new1.cert.cert SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/src/apache/apache_1.3.19/SSLconf/conf/privkey.pem SSLVerifyClient 0 SSLFakeBasicAuth SSLSessionCacheTimeout ...
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