Antwort: [Mod_gzip] Install problem....

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Hi Robin,


> Got a little install problem with mod_gzip, wonder if anyone can help me
 out?

your message doesn't look like you have a problem installing
mod_gzip - you rather seem to have a problem installing open_ssl
and your Apache SSL module in the first place.
Try to resolve one issue after another - if the Apache compilation
fails then it is not easy to interpret the error messages.

> /usr/local/apache/include/buff.h:78:3: #error "Don't use OpenSSL/SSLeay
> versions less than 0.9.2b, they have a serious security problem!"

You should take this message seriously.
The latest version of openssl is 0.9.7, and everything before that
seems to have known security issues. Your Apache 1.3 is too old
to know about more than 0.9.2, but ...

> The library its moaning ~ (ssl.h), does exist under
> /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/ssl.h - do i need to change a path
> setting or something??

I think so, but this might be an issue of your SSL module.
I am not familiar with SSL for Apache 1.3 (as there was no source
code shipped by the Apache Group), but with Apache 2 the "configure"
script has an option to specify where your open_ssl installation
resides - if you didn't install open_ssl with its default parameters,
that is (in that case "configure" can guess correctly by default).

Installing mod_ssl for Apache 2 looks rather transparent to me, and
the filter concept of Apache 2 eliminates the classical problem with
SSL and mod_gzip interaction in Apache 1.3. So would it be an option
for you to try Apache 2.0.47 for your scenario? Do you depend on any
mod_gzip options that aren't supported by mod_deflate?



Regards, Michael

(currently trying to build some Apache 2.0.47 with open_ssl 0.9.7,

mod_ssl and mod_deflate ... similar scenario yet different versions)