Hello, three weeks I set up a Subversion/Apache2 on my private OpenBSD 4.2 to be publicly available. It was not migrated from an earlier system. Doing this I hade cause to restart Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.2 repeatedly until my access control worked correctly. This disclosed a shortcoming in Apache 1.3, which I verified anew some five minutes ago.
The standard procedure I use is # apachectl2 configtest # apacheclt2 restart which works perfectly for Apache 2.2, but the counterpart # apachectl configtest # apachectl restart claims to restart httpd, but in fact only kills off the previous service without starting a new one. However, # apachectl configtest # apachectl stop # apachectl start is perfectly in order. When reading the log file, it is clear that of some unknown reason one shared module "mod_auth_digest.so" cannot be located, although it is present in the indicated directory and nowhere else: > Syntax error on line 224 of /conf/httpd.conf: > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_digest.so > into server: File not found Thus "apachectl start" can locate a module that "apachectl restart" cannot find. I find the responsible maintainer ought to look into this matter, although the above workaround is perfectly viable and which used until I had my service up and running as intended. Regards M E Andersson
