Hi, Yes, I have OpenSSL installed and also have .key and .crt files at the correct place. I am not an administrator on this machine and only have root privileges on apache tree so don't exactly know if apache was installed with --enable-ssl option. I used "httpd -l" to get a list of compiled modules and it DOES NOT show mod_ssl.so. Does this mean that apache was not compiled with mod_ssl??? To specify the SSL configuration, I use <IfModule mod_ssl> rather than <IfDefine SSL> which allows to me use ./apachectl startssl rather than to specify -DSSL flag... I looked at the error logs and found that, I have the following error "Invalid method in request \x80=\x01\x03". After this I also checked my ssl.conf and found that I do have "SSLEngine on" in the virtual host but My guess is that there is some problem with SSLEngine which causes https requests to be dealt by http causing an error.... Your thoughts on this please...:-) cheers junaid > OK the big questions. Do you have OpenSSL installed? Did you compile > Apache with mod_ssl? Do you have the .key and .crt files in the correct > place on the server? Did you start apache with the -DSSL flag? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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