I'm having an interesting problem with Apache after compiling and installing the latest mod_ssl DSO: libssl.so in my apache server.
I am using the following enviorment: OS: RedHat Linux 8 Platform: x86 (athlon processor) Openssl: 0.9.7d (compiled and installed w/ clean sources) Apache: 1.3.29 (compiled and installed w/ clean sources) Mod_ssl: 2.8.16-1.3.29 (compiled and installed w/ clean sources) The problem occurs when I start Apache with SSL enabled it seems to ignore the "MinSpareServers 16" directive and only starts up one process. Once I access one of the sites that my Apache server handles it spawns another child process but still does not spawn 16 child processes like I'd like. I'm not quite sure what's going on and I haven't found a mention of this issue on the mailing lists thus far; though perhaps I wasn't using the right key words to search with:-) Thanks in advance to any help u'all might provide. Another interesting point is that this only happens when I start apache with httpd -DSSL. Otherwise even if I start the apache server normally and explicitly LoadModule libssl.so apache starts up the correct amount of servers. Best regards, Theo I start Apache by calling "/etc/init.d/httpd start": #Options passed to httpd at start #All this does is pass httpd -DSSL to start Apache with SSL if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/httpd ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/httpd fi start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " daemon $httpd $OPTIONS RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd return $RETVAL } Top part of httpd.conf looks like this: ServerType standalone ServerRoot "/inet/www/apache" PidFile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid ScoreBoardFile /var/log/apache/httpd.scoreboard ResourceConfig /dev/null AccessConfig /dev/null Timeout 300 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 15 MinSpareServers 16 MaxSpareServers 32 StartServers 64 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 Listen *:80 <IfDefine SSL> Listen *:443 </IfDefine> SSL Global Context in httpd.conf looks like this: <IfModule mod_ssl.c> AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin SSLSessionCache none SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300 SSLMutex sem SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 1024 SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 1024 SSLLog /var/log/httpd/ssl_engine.log SSLLogLevel info ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]