You can generate your own certificate to get SSL working. However, your browser will always bring up a warning that says the certificate is not signed by a signing authority. If you're going to do a shopping cart thing or have customers, you have to cough up the money. If it's just for personal use, you can generate your own certificate using openssl. I forget how to do it, but there should be instructions on the mod_ssl page. If you generate your own, don't put a passphrase in it or will have to type in that passphrase everytime your webserver starts. If your webserver is setup to start automatically on boot, your machine will hang waiting for the passphrase, but you won't be able to type it in. Mandrake 7.2 comes with mod_ssl installed and a certificate already generated so you don't even have to do any setup. You could probably use the Mandrake RPM's on your system if it's rpm based. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson at visi.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 5:00 PM > To: TCLUG > Subject: [TCLUG] cheap SSL > > > Hey everyone, > > I want to SSL-enable my Web server at home. Do I really have > to pony up > a bunch of money/year for the privilege or is there an alternative? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >