> However, unless I am really blind, this link doesn't offer me much help.
> Keeping to the Linux specific stuff, I have found a nice example of an
> "ssl-enabled" httpd.conf file, but missing here are all the details about
> the ssl bit (which I suppose are where they should be in ssl.conf which
> was not shown on the web page).

It is me again, answering my own post. After looking again at the
devside.net link, I found the description of how to set up the
certificates in Linux. It was within the section for building Apache,
which I overlooked at first since I'm working with everything put in place
after a RedHat 8 install (I didn't build anything to get this working).

Anyway, whew, I now have gotten https communiation to work. And I now
found out why I could not get it to work before! Upon install, I asked for
the medium security firewall to be set up, and then forgot all about it.
Fortunately, a test of my https connection with Mozilla told me the
connection was being refused, and a test locally with

openssl s_client -connect servername:443

worked fine. So this made me suspicious that something was blocking my
port 443 requests. I turned off the firewall for a test, and it works!

/Steve