Hmm, I do not want to contradict anyone. But what you describe does not make sense. Communications between FreePBX GUI and Asterisk is done via AMI, libcrypto is not being used at all for that. Perhaps you changed the asterisk AMI password without modifying the freepbx config files? The symlink works without breaking anything, but you have to do the correct symlink. FOP2 version 2.27 does not have that issue, you can try that version out, altough is currently in beta
http://download.fop2.com/fop2-2.27-centos-x86_64.tgz
Best regards,