apachectl startssl at boot time ?

[Ean Kingston]

> Hi,
>
> I can start apache with SSL ok from the command line
>
>> apachectl startssl
>
> I've now put the following into /etc/rc.conf hoping that it will start at
> boot time.
>
> apache_enable="YES"
> apache_flags="startssl"

Try

apache_flags="-DSSL"

instead.

> This starts Apache on boot time but not with SSL
>
> It seems like startssl is being passed as an argument to httpd rather than
> apachectl.

You are right, the startup scripts call httpd directly. If you look at the
apachectl script you will see that the 'startssl' command does the
following:

    startssl|sslstart|start-SSL)
        if [ $RUNNING -eq 1 ]; then
            echo "$0 $ARG: httpd (pid $PID) already running"
            continue
        fi
        if $HTTPD -DSSL; then
            echo "$0 $ARG: httpd started"

So, if you do what I said above, your web server will start up with ssl
support.

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