You might also check out the workaround described in mod_ssl bug 569. I, too, am having trouble with mod-ssl-enabled Apache on Windows, and this "fix" seems to have worked for the bug reporter. I'm going to give it a try very soon.
Jay -----Original Message----- From: Johannes Bertscheit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WIN32-apache 1.3.x (windows NT) problem of serving concurrent https requests Hi all, Does anyone know something about the following WIN32-apache-modssl and/or WIN32-apache problem as described below? In short: It seems that any WIN32-apache (I tried) has this problem: They cannot display pages (I need mainly https:// but also tried http://) with many images in a RELIABLE manner. That means if you SHIFT-RELOAD the page several times (10x, 20x, 50x.), the apache process crashes once in a while and is restarted after some time. In this time the server is not accessable and images remain empty or the page itself says "unable to load page" I had this effekt on the following apache servers: - WIN32-apache-mod_ssl 1.3.6 - WIN32-apache-mod_ssl 1.3.9 - WIN32-apache-mod_ssl 1.3.20 - WIN32-apache-mod_ssl 1.3.22 - IBM http server 1.3.19 - based on apache 1.3.20 (without mod_ssl - but with own IBM-ssl-128) I also tried cygwin-based apaches: - cygwin apache 1.3.6 mod_ssl - cygwin camp 1.3.20 mod_ssl The cygwin-based show NOT this effect - but have other problems (sporadic hangs of the cygwin-apache and/or cygwin-system) which do not allow to use them. The only RELIABLE SSL-web server on windows-nt I found yet is "tinyssl" (also based on openssl) - it is solid as a rock - but it has not the functionality I need (ProxyPass, RewriteRule, mod_jserv...). The problem is closely associated with concurrent requests (to load the images) to the server. So it is a bug in the thread/process- sychronisation of WIN32-apache versions and I think in the core-apache, because apache crashes occur also if you redirect the image loading to another SSL-server (with ProxyPass) and also if you use http:// instead of http://.. I need to get a RELIABLE apache-based mod-ssl web server for windows NT but havent found such a thing yet... Do you know a RELIABLE (no hangs!, no crashes!) running WIN32-apache-mod- ssl installation anywhere? Is there a solution for this problem? Thanks in advance Johannes Here is a posting to mod_ssl which describes the crashes of WIN32-apache 1.3.20 in more detail: Subject: WIN32-apache 1.3.20 (windows NT) problem of serving concurrent https requests Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:20:58 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Artur Bertscheit) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: JB Management & Consulting To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I use Apache_1.3.20-Mod_SSL_2.8.4-OpenSSL_0.9.6a-WIN32.zip from your contribution area ( http://www.modssl.org/contrib/Apache_1.3.20-Mod_SSL_2.8.4-OpenSSL_0.9.6a- WIN32.zip ) when serving SSL pages under this WIN32-apache 1.3.20 under windows NT e.g: html page with 20 images or html-frame with 1 image and I SHIFT-RELOAD these pages several times (with IE5.5 or netscape4.78 dont matters) (it depends on timing conditions if the crash will occur - so several tries - up to 10- may be neccessary) then I get the following Dr.Watson crashes: FAULT ->6ffa1522 8b5104 mov edx,[ecx+0x4] ds:00dfea06=???????? FAULT ->10007587 8b0491 mov eax,[ecx+edx*4] ds:00000017=???????? because if Apache.exe's are restarted automatically, the server continues to server after some delay and maybe anoher SHIFT-RELOAD may show all images/frames. I think its a problem of serving concurrent https requests (several images / several frames). Are there known problems in this area??? How can the problem be fixed? I tried almost all configuration settings (e.g. SSLSessionCache on/off, nokeepalive on/off...) with no effect. Thanks in advance! Johannes ______________________________________________________________________________ E*TRADE - neu in Deutschland. Jetzt Depot er�ffnen + Pr�mie erhalten http://etrade.web.de ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
