Instead of using <IfDefine SSL>, try putting all your SSL virtual host settings between <IfModule mod_ssl.c> </IfModule> R. --- Bill Angus <mdangus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Krist and all... Thanks for the information you > gave. It helped me to debug some of my mistakes in > the .conf files and to understand a bit of what is > going wrong. > > I think part of the problem is my environment. I > have windows 2000 boxes and have an installed Apache > 2.0.55 binary (downloaded from the 'net with mod_ssl > supposedly enabled). > > Using your information, I traced the point where the > Apache2 startup fails in my ssl.conf > > As soon as the server encounters the <VirtualHost > _default_:443> directive, the startup dies. > > The server was starting ok because it never got to > this directive -- > REASON it passed over the <IfDefine SSL> directive > as if SSL is not defined. > > I uncommented the directive ... > LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so > ... in the httpd.conf file > > Is there anything else I need to do to get SSL > defined? > > Should I be building my own binary -- I understand > from other messages that my compiler (Mcirosoft > Visual Studiooooo 2005) is not good for this. > > Anybody have any suggestions? > > >On 5/2/06, Krist van Besien > <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> another test you can do is > >> > > >httpd -S > > > >Small correction, this has to be (ofcourse) > > > >httpd -S -DSSL > > > >If you can't make sense of the output if this > command just post it here. > > > >Krist > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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