Albeit probably not best practice, I was in the throws of testing things and just happend to try and use the same SSLCertificateFile for two different VirtualHost servers running on two different ports, with the same ServerName. Both worked fine untill I changed the ServerName of one of them in the config file, the server would then crash on start up with practically no debug information or any pointers to a relevant cause. After a fair bit of fiddling about I worked out that the ServerName change was the cause. I changed to using two different certificates and the problem went away. [Wed Dec 27 02:45:18 2006] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Dec 27 02:45:18 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [info] Server: Apache/2.2.3, Interface: mod_ssl/2.2.3, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7c [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [Wed Dec 27 02:45:20 2006] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy Is all that would be written to the main error log. With: [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [info] Configuring server for SSL protocol [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [debug] ssl_engine_init.c(405): Creating new SSL context (protocols: SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1) [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [debug] ssl_engine_init.c(729): Configuring RSA server certificate [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `xxx' does NOT match server name!? [Wed Dec 27 02:45:19 2006] [debug] ssl_engine_init.c(768): Configuring RSA server private key Being written to both of the relevant VirtualHost error logs. This may well not be a bug, but an intended feature, could possibly do with a "don't be silly!" debug message ;) Regards, Brendan Boyd
What does "crash on startup" mean, exactly? A segfault?
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