After a bit more work, I realised the best way to have my scripts run secure are. THis works really well:

apache_1.3.27.tar.gz
mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27.tar.gz
openssl-0.9.7a.tar.gz

$ cd openssl-0.9.7a
$ ./config
$ make
$ cd ..

$ cd mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27
$ ./configure \
--with-apache=../apache_1.3.27 \
--with-ssl=../openssl-0.9.7a \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache
$ cd ..
$ cd apache_1.3.27
$ make 

$ make certificate TYPE=custom
$ make install
$ /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
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Make sure to export the secure public key to each client...