Software Engineer Notes (Ziv Birer blog)

When Apache run on linux, there are several usefull commands: Assumption: Apache is installed on /sw/pkg/apache. See server status /sw/pkg/apache/bin/apachectl Validate configuration files /sw/pkg/apache/bin/httpd -t Stop apache /sw/pkg/apache/bin/apachectl -k stop See server version /sw/pkg/apache/bin/httpd -v See who listen on port 80 netstat  | grep 80 netstat -ltnp | grep ':80'

When SSL connection to server fails, first retry the connection using Chrome. Chrome give more information on the problem. Below is list of Chrome errors and possible ways to troubleshoot them.

openssl is great tool but it is hard to remember its usage ... here is my summary.

Summary of page  Compiling and Installing - Apache HTTP Server Download files Download (1) apr (2) apr-util (3) pcre (4) httpd. apr and apr-utils from http://apr.apache.org/ .   pcre  from  http://www.pcre.org/ httpd  from  http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi    Compile APR tar -xvzf apr-1.4.6.tar.gz cd apr-1.4.6/ ./configure make make install Compile APR-UTIL tar -xvzf apr-util-1.4.1.tar.gz cd apr-util-1.4.1 ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr make make install Compile PCRE cd pcre-8.31 ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr make make install Compile HTTPD tar -xvzf httpd-2.4.1.tar.gz cd httpd-2.4.1 ./configure --enable-file-cache --enable-cache --enable-disk-cache --enable-mem-cache --enable-deflate --enable-expires --enable-headers --enable-usertrack --enable-ssl --enable-cgi --enable-vhost-alias --enable-rewrite --enable-so --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/ --prefix=/sw/pkg/apache make make install cd ..