How to install Apache with SSL on a windows box.

Here is how I installed Apache with SSL on a Windows box

1. Read this HowTo and wiki.

2. You need to download apache 1.3 or 2.0 web-server msi installer
and install in c:/apache (call it $apache).

3. Download ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dlls into %WINDIR%/system32

4. Make certificates with openssl.exe and put them in $apache/conf/ssl/

> openssl req  -new -out server.csr

> openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out server.key

> openssl x509 -in server.csr -out server.crt -req -signkey server.key -days 36500

> openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.der.crt -outform DER

> cp server.crt server.key $apache/conf/ssl

5. wget and edit conf/ssl/ssl.conf

6. Edit conf/http.conf

7. Test with Opera https://localhost
Opera will ask you about accepting the your server certificate,
the one you created in step 4.
Problems? Debug with wget -d https://localhost and see $apache/logs/*.*

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8. How to selectively export directories to a $USER?

Create an account for the USER
> $apache/bin/htpasswd.exe -c $apache/conf/userlist.lst $USER

And export c:/ as https://localhost/exported/c/
Add this to $apache/conf/httpd.conf

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so 

ServerSignature       Off 

SSLCertificateFile    conf/ssl/server.crt  

SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/server.key  



Alias "/exported/c/" "c:/"  

< Directory "c:/">

    AllowOverride AuthConfig

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

    AuthType Basic

    AuthName "Password Required"

    AuthUserFile abs_path_to_$apache/conf/userlist.lst

    Require valid-user

    SSLOptions +StrictRequire  

< /Directory>