Starting apache with ssl module

[Larry Cotton]

Hi

I'm trying to run apache including the ssl module, but am having some problems starting
it up.

I'm using red hat linux ver 7.1. uname -r gives the following output :
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown.

I've been through the following steps :

1) Downloaded OpenSSL version 0.9.7a (the latest as far as I could make out), extracted it, built and installed
it without error. For this I simply used the defaults :
./configure
make
make test
[su root]
make install

2) Downloaded apache 2.0.44, extract and configure using the command :
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl -I/usr/local/ssl/include" \
./configure --prefix=/home/Larry/WebServer/Apache \
--enable-so \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-info \
--enable-usertrack \
--enable-ssl \
--enable-mime-magic

This was successful.

3) make - seemed to compile OK

4) su root
make install - seemed to install OK

5) cd /home/Larry/WebServer/Apache
su root
./apachectl start

Results in the following error appearing in the error log :
Could not set permissions on ssl_mutex: check User and Group directives Cnfiguration Failed

I've not changed the configuration file, so the settings are currently the default ones. The User and Group directives are currently set as:
User nobody
Group #-1

Note that I compiled as user Larry, installed as root and am trying to start apache as root.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Cheers
Larry