RE: httpsd doesn't start

[Mitchell, Edmund]

I was in your exact boat yesterday, (except I use RH 8), and my problem turned out to be that the default, out-of-the-box ssl.conf file has ssl logging to logs/whateverLogFile, and I don't have a logs subdirectory where I keep my ssl.conf.    I commented out all the logging lines (and hopefully everything will work when I replace them with the real paths to the real logs) and it started up right away with /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL.   I wish it would have complained about this everytime I tried to start it up rather than just returning a prompt as if everything was fine...   HTH E -----Original Message----- From: Mike Burkhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: httpsd doesn't start Hi All,   I saw a couple of references to this problem in the archives, but none of the solutions there solved my problem.   I am running:   Red Hat 7.3 Apache 2.0.44 OpenSSL 0.9.7   1) I have a pretty vanilla httpd.conf  running only one site and I am trying to set up a secure virtual site in /apache2/htdocs/secureSite/ .   2) I created my key and self-signed cert in /apache2/conf/ .   3) I configured apache2/conf/ssl.conf to point to the correct key and cert and with the correct path to the directory that I want to serve documents from   I stop httpd and run apachectl startssl with no complaints, but only httpd starts, not httpsd, and nothing gets logged.  I have no idea how to track down what has gone wrong.  Can anyone offer any suggestions where to look?   Sorry if this is not enough information - if you tell me what else you need, I am happy to provide it to you.   Thanks,   Mike