On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Law, Bob <Robert.Law@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That must have been a change since 2.0.63. We are running apache with shibboleth and httpd-2.0.63. Our ssl.conf file has the <IfDefine> for SSL, but we don't start up httpd with -DSSL. > > I'm just glad I got it working. > Perhaps your OS/init scripts was starting the older version of httpd in a manner you did not understand; this functionality hasn't changed since httpd 1.3 at the latest. 2.0 documents it explicitly: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#ifdefine http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/httpd.html Some/most Linux distributions will have init scripts that automatically insert "-DFEATURE" that cause parts of their generic httpd.conf to activate, based upon whatever way of expressing preferences that distribution has blessed. Eg, in gentoo, you edit "/etc/conf.d/apache2" and add APACHE"_OPTS="-D SSL", where as in Debian you would run the command "a2enmod ssl", which presumably does something similar behind the scenes. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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