On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:08:08PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999, Magnus Stenman wrote:
>> It would be nice if httpd would check
>> its name when starting up -- if its
>> httpsd, define SSL, otherwise don't
> The problem is that now with Apache 1.3.4 a simple --target=foobar is all you
> need to name it "foobar". And so "httpsd" is just a historical example of a
> name. A lot of people will use "apache", so where to start and where to end
> with this? [...]
What I'd like to have is a third variant of starting up Apache with
mod_ssl which enables SSL, but disables asking for passwords (so that
start-up might fail if the password is not available). The reason is
that then the SSL-enabled server can be started from init without
running the risk that a configuration change (a new, encrypted keyfile)
will prevent the machine from booting as usual the next time. (I
presume that the reason for introducing the difference between "start"
and "startssl" in apachectl is exactly that: With "start" you can't
disturb the host's booting procedure.)
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