Just in case anyone is thinking about this, I managed to resolve it, more by luck than by any plan. Basically, I just added links in the httpd/lib directory to everything that it claimed it couldn't find. Some are actually links to links. John ===================================== On Monday 20 March 2017 22:32:21 John Iliffe wrote: > I hate to re-ask a question that I have asked before (in 2012) but I > have a new version of Apache and the same problem again. > > I compiled Apache-2.4.25 from source, and also openssl-1.0.2k. In the > Apache configuration I included "--with-ssl=/usr/openssl-1.0.2k" but > now when I try to start apache using apachectl -k start I get the > following error: > > -------------------- > httpd: Syntax error on line 135 of /usr/apache-2.4.25/conf/httpd.conf: > Cannot load modules/mod_ssl.so into server: libcrypto.so.1.0.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > --------------------- > > Without SSL there isn't a problem; Apache starts just fine. > > OK, so I'm cool, I look up the archive from the last time this happened > and it says to provide the path to the library in the Apache envvars > file so I did that. There are two envvars files, envvars-std and > envvars so I updatd them both. No luck. > > So, I decided to provide the path directly and I set up these two links > in the apache/lib directory: > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Mar 20 22:09 libssl.so -> > /usr/openssl-1.0.2k/lib/libssl.so > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Mar 20 22:11 libssl.so.1.0.0 -> > /usr/openssl-1.0.2k/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 > > Still no luck. Both of the linked files are present. > > OS is Fedora 25 with SELinux running in permissive mode. > > Can anyone see what I missed? > > Regards, > > John > ==================================== > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx