Going through the motions to get TLS up and running for my website. I read under the AWS documentation to
sudo yum install -y mod24_ssl
but was getting a conflict on some dependencies.
I ended up reading a blog where someone mentioned sudo yum install mod_ssl and I ended up running that without any issues. Can someone let me know if this safe? What's the difference between mod_ssl and mod24_ssl?
Thanks
As @stdunbar said mod_ssl works with Apache 2.2 and mod24_ssl works with Apache 2.4.
We can see that the package descriptions are similar except for the Version:
[ec2-user]$ yum info mod_ssl
Available Packages
Name : mod_ssl
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 2.2.32
Release : 1.9.amzn1
Size : 107 k
Repo : amzn-updates/latest
Summary : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP Server
URL : http://httpd.apache.org/
License : ASL 2.0
Description : The mod_ssl module provides strong cryptography for the Apache Web
: server via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer
: Security (TLS) protocols.
[ec2-user]$ yum info mod24_ssl
Installed Packages
Name : mod24_ssl
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 2.4.27
Release : 3.71.amzn1
Size : 224 k
Repo : installed
From repo : amzn-updates
Summary : SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP Server
URL : http://httpd.apache.org/
License : ASL 2.0
Description : The mod_ssl module provides strong cryptography for the Apache Web
: server via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer
: Security (TLS) protocols.
We can see what each package depends on using yum deplist:
[ec2-user]$ yum deplist mod_ssl
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
26 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
package: mod_ssl.x86_64 1:2.2.32-1.9.amzn1
... snip ...
dependency: httpd = 2.2.32-1.9.amzn1
provider: httpd.x86_64 2.2.32-1.9.amzn1
... snip ...
[ec2-user]$ yum deplist mod24_ssl
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
26 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
package: mod24_ssl.x86_64 1:2.4.27-3.71.amzn1
... snip ...
dependency: httpd24 = 2.4.27-3.71.amzn1
provider: httpd24.x86_64 2.4.27-3.71.amzn1
... snip ...
httpd and httpd24 conflict--you can't have both installed at the same time.