Thank you.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: New User: must be obvious question


> Hi Mike,
>
> the problem you are observing has a simple explanation. If you define
> -DSSL as argument for apachectl or configtest or httpd the according
> parts included in
> <IfDefine SSL> .. </IfDefine> are executed. If not defined, they are
> ignored. Your LoadModule and AddModule statements are properly nested
> with IfDefines, but your VirtualHost for SSL (including mod_ssl
> directives like SSLEngine) seems not to be enclosed by IfDefine or
> IfModule.
> If you start your httpd with -DSSL this is no problem, because mod_ssl
> is loaded and interprets these directives. If you don't give -DSSL (as
> in your call of configtest) the Apache httpd does not load mod_ssl and
> does not understand directives like SSLEngine.
> To get rid of the error, you should encapsulate all directives that are
> available only  if a certain module is loaded into Apache with IfDefine
> or IfModule statements. For examples of this have a look in the
> standard httpd.conf in the conf directory of your Apache installation.
>
> > The commented lines have no effect in or out.  This was occuring long
before
> > these line comments were added.  I just added those recently to find
things
> > easier when editing the file to try with this issue.  I added these
comments
> > after the problem started...they where not there originally.  Without
the
> > comment lines, it simply shifts the line # where the error occurs.  I
have
> > always had
> > > LoadModule ssl_module         modules/libssl.so
> >  in my httpd.conf but I do not have
> > AddModule mod_ssl.c.
> > However, upon adding this line AddModule mod_ssl.c, there was no effect.
> > Configtest gives the same error on the same line #.
> >
> > Is there some other way to restart apache when mod_ssl is installed.
After
> > all, you use apachectl startssl instead of apachectl start.  Is there an
> > apachectl restartssl?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
>
>
> With best regards
>
> Georg Oppenberg
> Internet Engineer Web Hosting
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