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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by je...@apache.org on 2001/12/04 10:05:59 UTC
cvs commit: httpd-site/xdocs/test/flood building.html
jerenkrantz 01/12/04 01:05:59
Modified: docs/test/flood building.html
xdocs/test/flood building.html
Log:
Update flood build documentation to indicate that SSL support is no longer
enabled by default.
(A code change is going into flood shortly to detect this and bug out,
but let's document it as well.)
Revision Changes Path
1.2 +21 -0 httpd-site/docs/test/flood/building.html
Index: building.html
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RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-site/docs/test/flood/building.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- building.html 2001/11/21 07:31:47 1.1
+++ building.html 2001/12/04 09:05:59 1.2
@@ -67,6 +67,27 @@
platform. Note that the httpd-2.0 configure will run the apr and apr-util
configuration scripts.</P>
+<p><b><font color="red">Note:</font></b> that SSL support is <b>not</b>
+enabled by default in flood. If you wish to enable SSL support, you
+must specify the following options to flood's configure:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><code>--enable-ssl</code></li>
+<li><code>--with-randfile</code></li>
+<li><code>--with-capath</code></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The <code>--enable-ssl</code> option enables detection of the
+OpenSSL libraries. If flood can not detect OpenSSL, you will need
+to specify --with-openssl to point at the appropriate installed
+version of OpenSSL. The <code>--with-randfile</code> points at a
+writeable file that contains enough entropy to initialize OpenSSL's
+random number generation features (a typical default might be
+<code>/home/<user>/tmp/random-file</code>).
+The <code>--with-capath</code> points at a directory that contains
+the Certificate Authorities (<b>CA</b>s) for OpenSSL (a typical
+default might be <code>/usr/lib/ssl/certs</code>).</p>
+
<PRE>
% cd httpd-2.0
% ./buildconf
1.2 +21 -0 httpd-site/xdocs/test/flood/building.html
Index: building.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-site/xdocs/test/flood/building.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- building.html 2001/11/21 07:14:19 1.1
+++ building.html 2001/12/04 09:05:59 1.2
@@ -67,6 +67,27 @@
platform. Note that the httpd-2.0 configure will run the apr and apr-util
configuration scripts.</P>
+<p><b><font color="red">Note:</font></b> that SSL support is <b>not</b>
+enabled by default in flood. If you wish to enable SSL support, you
+must specify the following options to flood's configure:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><code>--enable-ssl</code></li>
+<li><code>--with-randfile</code></li>
+<li><code>--with-capath</code></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The <code>--enable-ssl</code> option enables detection of the
+OpenSSL libraries. If flood can not detect OpenSSL, you will need
+to specify --with-openssl to point at the appropriate installed
+version of OpenSSL. The <code>--with-randfile</code> points at a
+writeable file that contains enough entropy to initialize OpenSSL's
+random number generation features (a typical default might be
+<code>/home/<user>/tmp/random-file</code>).
+The <code>--with-capath</code> points at a directory that contains
+the Certificate Authorities (<b>CA</b>s) for OpenSSL (a typical
+default might be <code>/usr/lib/ssl/certs</code>).</p>
+
<PRE>
% cd httpd-2.0
% ./buildconf