Apache 2 w/ SSL Boot

jqcaducifer · 08-14-2003, 05:02 PM

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to figure out a way to put my apache installation at bootup time. I have RH9, and it seems to be that at runlevel 5, it runs a symbolic link /etc/rc5.d/S85httpd that points to the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd. Now i'm using SSL, which means I need to type apachectl startssl to start apache. I looked in the apachectl script, and startssl is the same as doing:

Code:

httpd -k start -DSSL

Now I was wondering what would be a good way to incorporate that command in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd script file? I looked through it, and there was the start() command:

Code:

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        check13 || exit 1
        daemon $httpd $OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd
        return $RETVAL
}

$httpd points to the file place, but I can't figure out where the $OPTIONS variable comes from. If i could edit that variable to "-k start -DSSL", then everything would work fine, i'm assuming. So does anyone know where I can define that $OPTIONS variable?

EDIT

oh yeah, btw, i already got rid of the pass phrase needed with apachectl startssl, so no need to worry about that!

david_ross · 08-15-2003, 02:42 PM

I think it is usually from:
/etc/sysconfig/httpd

You could just use this though:
daemon $httpd -k start -DSSL $OPTIONS