Hi, I am very new bie to apache and just started maintaining it. I have a perl script being called when the folowing error is generated. I dont understand whats going on . it says that Access is denied :dont't know how to spawn child process. only thing i understood was, apache is trying to create a process under some kind of parent and it is been denied..other than that i dont know anything.. please help me. this is what i have in ssl.log [Fri Feb 24 20:36:53 2006] [info] Connection to child 249 established (server cacweb2.cac.gov.ng:8443, client 127.0.0.1) [Fri Feb 24 20:36:53 2006] [info] Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Fri Feb 24 20:36:53 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 5)Access is denied. : Failed to read cgi file C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/dtich/cpinterface.pl for testing [Fri Feb 24 20:36:53 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 5)Access is denied. : don't know how to spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/dtich/cpinterface.pl [Fri Feb 24 20:36:53 2006] [info] Connection to child 249 closed with standard shutdown(server cacweb2.cac.gov.ng:8443, client 127.0.0.1) [Fri Feb 24 20:36:54 2006] [info] Connection to child 249 established (server cacweb2.cac.gov.ng:8443, client 127.0.0.1) [Fri Feb 24 20:36:54 2006] [info] Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Fri Feb 24 20:36:54 2006] [info] Initial (No.1) HTTPS request received for child 249 (server cacweb2.cac.gov.ng:8443) [Fri Feb 24 20:36:54 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico [Fri Feb 24 20:37:09 2006] [info] (OS 10060)A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. : SSL input filter read failed. [Fri Feb 24 20:37:10 2006] [info] Connection to child 249 closed with standard shutdown(server cacweb2.cac.gov.ng:8443, client 127.0.0.1)rch __________________________________________________ i have following in my httpd.conf # SSL SSLMutex default SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLSessionCache none ErrorLog logs/ssl.log LogLevel warn # You can later change "info" to "warn" if everything is OK #<VirtualHost dtissl.dtiny.com:8443> # SSLEngine On # SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/server.crt # SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/server.key #</VirtualHost> # SQL-Ledger Alias /dtich/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/dtich/" <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/dtich"> AllowOverride All AddHandler cgi-script .pl Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks Order Allow,Deny Allow from All #RequireSSL #SSLEngine On #SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/server.crt #SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/server.key </Directory> ____________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx