Excellent, that was the fix. I know I grep'ed through that file a zillion times for ssl and it didn't ever show that INCLUDE line, but when I grep'ed for "include" I found it. Thank you so much! -John Krist van Besien wrote: > On 2/24/06, John Beck <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hello, >> We run multiple instances of apache 2.0.55 on the same server. Each >>instance has it's own IP address. >> >> I have been trying without success to run SSL on more than one instance >> at the same time. Usually if I specify the IP in a virtualhost section >>of the ssl.conf then the first instance of apache starts listening on >>all the IPs specified in ssl.conf. > > > Since you tell apache to listen to all IPs is does exactly that. You > need to tell your first apache to only listen to the first IP, and > your second apache instance to listen to the second IP. > > >>Is there a way to use make apache use a different ssl.conf than the >>default in /opt/apache2/conf/ssl.conf. > > > Ofcourse this is possible. Have a look in your configuration files for > the "Include" statement. > > >>I have also tried to run the ssl >>in each individial httpd-server1.conf and httpd-server2.conf files but >>it seems to not recognize the SSLENGINE or any other SSL configurations. > > > For SSL directives to be recognised you need mod_ssl to be loaded. In > the standard apache config file distributed with the software this is > done when you add -D SSL as startup option, or start with apachectl > startssl (which does the same). > > In the standard apache config that you got with your distribution the > SSL option also triggers the loading of a seperate ssl.conf file. > > I would do the following: > > make a ssl1.conf and a ssl2.conf. In these files you put the SSL > configuration for server 1 and server 2 resp. > > In httpd-server1.conf look for the following lines: > > <IfModule mod_ssl.c> > Include conf/ssl.conf > </IfModule> > > And change ssl.conf in to ssl1.conf. > > httpd-server2.conf change ssl.conf to ssl2.conf. > > You now have two seperate ssl configs for your two seperate apache instances. > > Krist > > > -- > krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx > Solothurn, Switzerland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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