RE: How about making a list FAQ? (was RE: enabling ssl for a subdirectory of a vhost)

This sounds like a good idea to me. It sounds like creating a config "cookbook", and a cookbook supplement has proven valuable to other porjects. I got more information from Owen's explanation than reams of tutorials and documents, both online and deadtree format. Of course it takes a special editor to make the information concise, informative, and somewhat self-explanatory, but there is already one guy who's shown that he can do it. Other topics that seem to generate a lot of traffic are hardware engines, and mod_proxy/reverse proxies/load balancers. I don't even know the best questions to ask on these, but they are recurring.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco A. Zamora Cunningham [mailto:marco.zamora@cbbanorte.com.mx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:45 AM
To: 'modssl-users@modssl.org'
Subject: How about making a list FAQ? (was RE: enabling ssl for a
subdirectory of a vhost)


Great explanation, Owen. I'm keeping it for whenever somebody asks me --for
the upteenth time-- how to do it.

Which set me thinking: The top 20 questions, which take up a lot of traffic
on this list, are really about configuration tips & tricks, and are not
really covered in the www.modssl.org FAQ. Why don't we help Ralph by adding
them to the FAQ? It would help a lot if we do that, and include a link to it
on the subscription confirmation and the list sig.

Ralph, would that be OK with you?

Off the top of my head, I can think of a few Q's that crop up on an
almost daily basis:
- How do I set a a pure-virtual SSL host? (You don't.)
- Well, then how do I set up an SSL host? (A basic 20-line
config, specifying _default_:443 and specificserver:443
VH's)
- How do I force all or a part of my site to be served
exclusively by SSL? (Redirects by core, mod_rewrite and/or
mod_proxy)
- Compiling on different platforms. (This might be the most
difficult part to keep up to date, but some quick ten-or-
twenty liners, culled from correct answers on the list might
be enough.)
- MSIE keepalive strangeness and bug workarounds (global and
agent-specific cipher stuff)
- How do I sign/self-sign my certificate? (That one's already
in the docs; maybe five-line quick answer?)
- How do I set up an SSL->plain HTTP gateway, or vice versa?
(mod_proxy, maybe with help by mod_rewrite, other solutions
such as stunnel)

¿Can anybody think of other high-traffic topics not on the existing FAQ?

I would be able to help on this FAQ by the start of next month. Anybody else
want to chip in?

Cheers... Marco Zamora

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@swx.com]
> [...]
> >From: Justin Georgeson [mailto:jgeorgeson@unboundtech.com]
> >
> >I have Apache 1.3.17 with mod_ssl. I'm not a real proficient apache
>
> Congratulations, you've already done the hard part of
> installing mod_ssl and getting it running with certs and so
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