On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Srinivas Jonnalagadda wrote:
I need to have 2 separate installations of apache2 http server refereing to 2 different versions of openssl. One is using 0.9.8b and the other uses 0.9.8i. How do i install open ssl in such a scenario. Help is urgently needed.
As other respondents have said, you must install the two copies of OpenSSL in separate locations. In addition, it appears that hardcoding the path to a linked library in Apache modules does not work very well on Linux. So, you must point each copy of Apache to the proper copy of OpenSSL by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. On Solaris, this is not necessary since the linker does the right thing.
If you choose to install OpenSSL in the same prefix as Apache itself and start Apache using the apachectl script, you don't have to set the environment variable since the script sets it to the lib directory under your Apache installation, and that is also where your OpenSSL libraries will be.
You don't tell us which operating system you are using, but the 'apache2' moniker is used by Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu. If you are on Red Hat 5, you can't run a custom copy of OpenSSL since Red Hat links OpenSSL into the C library, which is loaded by the httpd binary before it loads its modules, and while mod_ssl may be linked against your copy, you will find that the system copy always wins.
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