Henning Sittler wrote:
> 
> I setup an IP based vhost with ssl amd my https connection worked.  I was
> happy.  But out of the blue, the vhost is gone.  Can't connect to it,
> nothing.  However my other vhosts (non-ssl, name based) remain fully
> functional.  Plainly restarting httpd with the exact same, unchanged
> httpd.conf file does not resolve the problem.  In fact, restarting doesn't
> even restart the lost vhost.
> 
> I've re-checked the httpd.conf so many times I'm tired of looking at it...
> it should be correct.   Anyone ever heard of ANYTHING like this?

First of all, I assume you are starting apache with SSL..., i.e.

# ./apachectl startssl

or 

# ./httpd -DSSL

or something similar. Unless you tell it specifically to use SSL, apache
will start only HTTP.

Having established that, when you say "out of the blue" - what happened?
Did you or anyone else or some automatic process (e.g. log rotating cron
job) restart the server? Did anyone do a "kill -HUP" or "kill -USR1"
causing apache to reload httpd.conf? Did httpd.conf change?

By the way, I am not asking you to check your memory for these events -
you must look in the logfile and check the modification date on
httpd.conf. Check over the error_log - it contains all records of server
shutdown or restart: e.g. this is what a normal shutdown and restart
looks like in the log-file:

[Tue Jul  3 17:02:21 2001] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Jul  3 17:02:24 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1
mod_perl/1
.25 mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jul  3 17:02:24 2001] [info] Server built: Mar 19 2001 14:44:03

Look especially for errors there. Particularly, is your mod_ssl compiled
in or loaded as a DSO? If DSO, could it have failed to load?

Also check the SSLEngineLog.

If nothing is apparent, try the restart again and "tail -f" both these
files to see what's going on. Report back your findings.

Rgds,

Owen Boyle
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