What speciafically does yer configs line 1158 state?
It's the whole clue to the issue, as that is the speciafic line httpd is pointing you to. Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, ComCity wrote: > Thank you....Austin,Andy and Ron. I thought the purpose of the list was to > get help....I'm sorry if my question seemed stupid. It was not my intention > to post a stupid question in which I had not exhausted other resources or > throughly looked at what I could find on this. I searched the FAQ's and the > entire previous threads on this list as well as throughly searched the > mod_ssl.org site and the apache web site. I found a few posts of other > people having this error but most of them couldn't start Apache at all no > matter what they did....they all had big problems like mod_ssl was never > even downloaded. > > I did warn that I was a new user and I'm sure the answer has to be obvious > to something I'm missing. > > --Heres what I found. > I did a httpd -DSSL -t > and it just said > Syntax OK > > whereas the httpd -t gives the same previous error complaining about line > 1158 > > --I also started a fresh error_log. I stopped apache and then started it up > again. I can't restart it....I have to completely stop it and this is all > my error_log has in it once Apache (re)Starts > > [Tue Oct 23 11:52:05 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.5 > FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.6.6 OpenSSL/0.9.6a configured -- resuming normal > operations > > --my ssl_engine_log normally just has the responses to the ssl requests > which look ok to me. Upon stopping and completly starting again this is > what is logged that is new. I see something about (still not detached) > which doesn't sound right, but otherwise looks ok. > > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Server: Apache/1.3.12, Interface: > mod_ssl/2.6.6, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.6a > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Init: 1st startup round (still not > detached) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Init: Loading certificate & private key > of SSL-aware server www.holisticfamilyandpets.com:443 > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of > entropy > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:02 01033] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private > keys (512/1024 bits) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01033] [info] Init: Configuring temporary DH > parameters (512/1024 bits) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: 2nd startup round (already > detached) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Reinitializing OpenSSL library > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of > entropy > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Configuring temporary RSA private > keys (512/1024 bits) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Configuring temporary DH > parameters (512/1024 bits) > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers > for SSL > [23/Oct/2001 11:52:05 01034] [info] Init: Configuring server > www.holisticfamilyandpets.com:443 for SSL protocol > > -- my <ifDefine SSL> from the httpd.conf says this: > <IfDefine SSL> > LoadModule ssl_module libexec/libssl.so > </IfDefine> > > -- Line 1158 is the SSLEngine ON line as shown below. I've seen this line > in most of the configuration information I have seen. > #Listen 443 > <VirtualHost 209.10.62.26:443> > DocumentRoot /home/webs/holisticfamilyandpets > ServerName www.holisticfamilyandpets.com > SSLEngine ON > SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/certs/holisticfamilyandpets.com.crt > SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/certs/holisticfamilyandpets.com.key > SSLVerifyClient none > </VirtualHost> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Austin Gonyou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:26 AM > Subject: Re: New User: must be obvious question > > > > Instead of saying figure it out for yourself. Perhaps we could give > > someone the answer they are looking for. With the understanding that > > this list, modssl-users, is for helping each other understand what's > > going on here. So, my 2cents is this: Check ssl_engine_log, error_log > > and also make sure you're actually loading mod_ssl. > > > > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 10:34, Owen Boyle wrote: > > > > > > > >Well that doesn't make a lot of sense....so your saying that > > > > >"configtest is > > > > >better at error checking than apache is at running?" > > > > > > How do you think configtest works? - it's just an instance of apache > > > with an error trap and exit stuck on. > > > > > > Actually I think you were mistaken when you told us "apache was running" > > > - I think you would find it was not working in SSL mode ("apachectl > > > startssl" doesn't report startup errors to the console - they go in the > > > logfile). > > > > > > > > > > > > >Here's the error I get: > > > > > > > > > >Syntax error on line 1158 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: > > > > >Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by > > > > >a module not > > > > >included in the server configuration > > > > > > What could that mean? 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