apache hangs when starting -> Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...

jma · 08-18-2004, 04:50 AM

Hi,
I have this problem that apache hangs when I start it from command line with fx.:
service httpd start
The message in error_log is like this for a coupple of starts:
[Tue Aug 17 08:33:44 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Aug 17 08:38:46 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Aug 17 08:43:58 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...

I have tried waiting up to 24 minutes without luck.

If I restart the hole system (shutdown -r) the apache starts with no problem - but I cannot live with that in the long run.

I am running Apache 2.0.50 on Fedora Core 1.
Hardware: pentium 4, 2.8 Ghz, 1 GB RAM.

1) Any suggestions how to solve the problem?

2) What module is behind this digest authentication ?

[edit]: ok I guess it must be mod_auth_digest.c

Thanks Jan

imbezol · 10-03-2006, 02:53 PM

I think this answers it pretty well.

You'll have to fix the link as this forum won't allow me to post URLs.

h t t p : / / w w w . r a p t o r i z e d . c o m / ? p = 7 0

jma · 10-04-2006, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imbezol

I think this answers it pretty well.

You'll have to fix the link as this forum won't allow me to post URLs.

h t t p : / / w w w . r a p t o r i z e d . c o m / ? p = 7 0

Hi Thank you very much for answering. Interesting to see a solution (though I do not have the problem anymore; got new servers today :-) ).

ITintuition · 10-05-2006, 05:13 PM

FYI, for anybody who has this problem in the future, with Windows/Linux configurations check out Likewise 2.0, there's Apache management tools which make it super easy to configure.

http://www.centeris.com/likewise

grob115 · 02-22-2007, 02:02 AM

Hi guys,

I am seeing the a lot of the following log entries but I don't think I'm encountering the problem of machine hanging. Though I don't know what the entries mean. Can someone please explain.
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:02 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:03 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:03 2007] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:03 2007] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:03 2007] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Wed Feb 21 20:15:05 2007] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured -- resuming normal operations