Hi, it turned out that this was some kind of misbehaviour of mod_ssl concerning wrong configuration with, however, correct syntax. In my case this was a file permission issue with the keyfile and a missing SSLCertificateKeyFile directive. I would consider this a bug, some Error message would be appreciated and apropriate here. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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