Troubleshooting

I installed OpenSSL and am trying to build a package with SSL. I used--with-sslas an option to configure, but it says it can't find thessl includes.

You might need to tell configure exactly where to find the SSL libraries or includes, particularly if you installed it in a non-standard location (OpenSSL installs into /usr/local/ssl by default). Check the ./configure --help options, but it is usually something like ./configure --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl.

I enabled SSL in Webmin and now I can't get in.

You probably didn't move the port to one above 1024 first. To correct the problem, stop Webmin, then cd to /etc/webmin. The file miniserv.conf contains various configurations, and you can either change ssl=1 to ssl=0 or port=1000 ...

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