Hello Kenneth, yes the module is included but the include to the path of the ssl.conf was commented out. After setting up the ssl.conf and certificates I removed the "#" to include the path to the ssl.conf. At this point I still was not able to use https. The error indicated that no ssl was listening on 443. So I though I might solve that with telling apache explicitely to start with ssl. Therefore I included the "-DSSL" in apachectl. I also know that after I did that it was the first time the ssl.conf was read because there was an error in the conf. After I removed this error I now allways get the Illegal Instruction. Regards Susan Rösner --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx