On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:10:25AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > If you configure your machine for SSL, then run it as SSL already!!! > Why are we trying to say "you've installed and configured SSL, so now > you have to turn it on explicitly everytime you start up." Which most > will take as meaning "I have apache2 installed, so now all I need to do > is to startssl and everything will work."
Simple: We have static and dynamic modules. Static modules can't turn off their LoadModule lines, so we can't use that to turn on and off the functionality in those modules. -DSSL is the runtime switch that mod_ssl uses to enable SSL functionality. -aaron
