Apache2 SSLEngine – Fixing Invalid Command ‘SSLEngine’ Error

apache-httpdssl

When I restart httpd, I get the following error. What am I missing?

[root@localhost ~]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/sites.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

I have installed mod_ssl using yum install mod_ssl openssh

Package 1:mod_ssl-2.2.15-15.el6.centos.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package openssh-5.3p1-70.el6_2.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version

My sites.conf looks like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
#    ServerName shop.itmanx.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@itmanx.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento
    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options -Indexes
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog logs/shop-error.log
    CustomLog logs/shop-access.log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName secure.itmanx.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@itmanx.com

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/server.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/server.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/chain.crt

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento
    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options -Indexes
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog logs/shop-ssl-error.log
    CustomLog logs/shop-ssl-access.log    
</VirtualHost>

Best Answer

Probably you do not load the ssl module. You should have a LoadModule directive somewhere in your apache configuration files.

Something like: 

LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib64/apache2-prefork/mod_ssl.so

Usually apache configuration template has (on any distribution) a file called (something like) loadmodule.conf in which you should find a LoadModule directive for each module you load into apache at server start.

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