Apache2 and server.crt does not exist.

[crkpipe1]

Greetings all,

I have emerged, unmerged and remerged using every possible combination of mod_ssl, mod_php, apache, etc. . . and I cannot get apache2 to start.

The error message being returned is as follows:

Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files:
Syntax error on line 44 of /usr/lib/apache2/conf/modules.d/41_mod_ssl.default-vhost.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file 'usr/lib/apache/conf/ssl/server.crt does not exist or is empty.

What is it exacly looking for, I was under the impression that ssl was built into the apache2 ebuild and would work?

Is there a certificate that needs to be generated that apache is looking for?

Any ideas, suggestions or solutions I thank you in advance for!

cb

[wolvie]

check the 44 of /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/41_mod_ssl.default-vhost.conf you should find something like

[crackpipe1]

Wolvie,

I tried what you have suggested and here is what happens... all I get now when I try to start apache now is the red [!!] with no error message.

I turn off the APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL" and apache loads [OK] what is it about ssl that apache2 is not liking?

I have unmerged and remerged in various different orders and combinations using different variables in make.conf but it only seems that I can get apache2 to work by turning off the "-D SSL" option, which of course is not good.

Any suggestions or ideas I thank you in advance for!

cb

[nobspangle]

check your error log to see why apache is not starting.
/var/log/apache2/error_log

[Chris..S]

I suspect it will be missing directory /var/cache/apache2.

mkdir /var/cache/apache2

and you should be able to /etc/init.d/apache2 start

I have just completed a clean install of apache2/ssl/php. You seem to have got passed the first three changes that I needed to make. This was the last one. After that apache started ok.

[Dagger]

[mwalle]

here's what i did to solve the errors:

[mwalle]

after an emerge --unmerge apache and then emerging it i get:

[rickvernam]

I was having this problem, but is has gone away now.
I looked in 'ssl_error_log' for clues, mine was located at /usr/lib/apache2/logs. Have you looked in there yet?
Here are some things I did that I think may have contributed to getting this darn thing working (my first time doing this, so I really don't know much except that I did the following and now it works)...

in /etc/conf.d/apache2.conf:
APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP5"
make sure to uncomment this line, I almost missed that...

in /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/41_mod_ssl.default-vhost.conf:
line 44: SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl/server.crt
line 52: SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl/server.key

server.* were generated by running the following commands in the /etc/apache2/conf/ssl folder as root. During the processes, it asks a bunch of questions, I don't know if it matters, but I answered the questions Identically for both files:
openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout server.key -nodes -x509 -out server.crt
openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout server.key -nodes -x509 -out server.key

I don't think I did anything else...but then again, even now only about 4 or 5 minutes after getting it to work, I don't remember...

[ikshaar]

Having the same problem to start apache2 (no previous apache1 was installed), I saw that the emerge ended with a warning about a missing ssl directory.