Apache2 & SSL, strange behaviour

[GOD]Anck · 03-25-2005, 04:48 AM

I have two machines running SuSE 9.1. Both have Apache2 installed. Both have SSL certificates in the proper locations, and a correctly configured vhost file. On one of them, "rcapache2 start" will start the server with -DSSL, on the other, it will not. "rcapache2 startssl" will not start it with -DSSL either. However, "apache2ctl startssl" works like it should, and the pages are accessible via https://. The /etc/rc.d/apache2 files on both machines are identical.

What can be causing one machine to fail starting SSL through the startup script where the other has no problems?

[GOD]Anck · 03-25-2005, 06:05 AM

From the error_log on the machine where Apache is not starting with -DSSL:

Code:

[Fri Mar 25 12:59:00 2005] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]

Both servers have the same /etc/apache/ssl-global.conf file, with following in it:

Code:

SSLSessionCache         shmcb:/var/lib/apache2/ssl_scache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout  600

This is stock, and one machine doesn't complain, yet the other does. I'm at a loss.. any ideas?

[GOD]Anck · 03-29-2005, 02:49 AM

Shameless nudge... still haven't solved this problem, any ideas would be much appreciated!