> I think we should just end this discussion here concluding that
> Apache has one way of handling its configuration processing and
> the "point and click" world has a different way. A look at
> http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ should be enough to suggest
> that the "Apache way" can't be a major p
Thanks for your response.
>> A curious architectural choice to say the least that I must
>> not understand the reasoning behind.
>
> It is the standard choice for Apache to abort the startup on configuration
> errors and IMNSHO the right way to do it. If there is a problem in your
> httpd.conf
BTW, thanks to all for all the great comments on this thread.
Chris
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> Sorry, no time to respond in detail for a day or two, this'll have to
> do.
>
> If you have your system misconfigured so that security credentials are
> unavailable, that is a security issue, not a configuration issue.
>
> A principal tenant of security is: "if something's broke, stop. NEVER
> Chris M wrote:
>
>>
>> If there is a cogent reason for killing 100 sites when 1 is configured
>> wrong, I'm listening to what it might be.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> Seems silly to have 100 production web sites hung up
> by a wrong or unte
>
>> One wonders why mod_ssl has to hang all of Apache on startup just for one
>> duff cert, and why it can't just log an error message someplace useful and
>> English-like and continue with the other hundred domains on there serving
>> HTTP requests.
>
> Because security problems aren't like D
> From: Owen Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:24:19 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: modssl freezes on startup
>
> Chris M wrote:
>>
>>> First of all, reply to the list, not to me person
> From: Owen Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:30:20 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: modssl freezes on startup
>
>> Chris M wrote:
>>>> [Fri May 11 23:44:04 2001] [error] mod_ssl: Init: Pr
When I start up (the latest modssl) with apache 1.3.19 on a new system with
modssl enabled like so:
NameVirtualHost some.ip.address.here
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html
ServerName www.mydomain.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /home/httpd/ssl/httpsd.crt
SSLCertifi
