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Cannot open SSLSessionCache???

Does anyone know why this might be happening??? Apache simply will not create this file, all it does it look for it. I tried to create an empty one but when I run apache it removes it first.

[29/Oct/2006 08:30:37 30648] [error] Cannot open SSLSessionCache DBM file `/programs/apache/logs-ssl/ssl_scache' for scanning (System error follows)
[29/Oct/2006 08:30:37 30648] [error] System: No such file or directory (errno: 2)

[29/Oct/2006 08:30:37 30648] [error] Cannot open SSLSessionCache DBM file `/programs/apache/logs-ssl/ssl_scache' for reading (fetch) (System error follows)
[29/Oct/2006 08:30:37 30648] [error] System: No such file or directory (errno: 2)

This 'logs-ssl' directory is world writable. Actually it doesn't matter where I put the ssl_scache, its never created and apache always gives these read errors trying to reach it.

I'm running Apache 1.3.37 on Linux 2.4.32. Latest everything like modssl 2.8.28-1.3.37, openssl 0.9.8d and php 4.4.4. File system is ext3.

This is whats in the httpd.conf:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
SSLSessionCache dbm:logs-ssl/ssl_scache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
SSLMutex file:logs-ssl/ssl_mutex
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
SSLLog /programs/apache/logs-ssl/ssl.log
SSLLogLevel info
</IfModule>

The ssl.log is logging fine, and the ssl_mutex files are created normally. anyone?

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periwinkle

what is the owner and group of the file? Of the directory that it is in?

scottg

ASKER

The file never exists, thats the problem. I mentioned above "Apache simply will not create this file, all it does is look for it. I tried to create an empty one but when I run apache it removes it first." So I can't give you the owner/group of the file as it never exists.

The directory has perms 777 and is owned by Apache's EUID which is nobody.group. But even if its 750 and root.root it don't matter, I've tried everything.

periwinkle

But you did say that you tried to create an empty one. My question was what did you set that to when it was created.

Setting to 777 is a very bad idea; it is possible that the reason it won't run is because the security is too lax.

I found an google reference to setting the user and id to apache.apache (even though they had nobody.httpd), but if you dont' have that username and group configured, I don't see how that would help.

I notice that you are using a relative path for the file:

SSLSessionCache dbm:logs-ssl/ssl_scache

Have you tried using an absolute (full) path instead?

scottg

ASKER

I'll try the full path, but I don't think it will matter because the error looks like it checks in the right place:

Cannot open SSLSessionCache DBM file `/programs/apache/logs-ssl/ssl_scache'

scottg

ASKER

problem was never solved, I had to disable the cache, which is fine. maybe give periwinkle half the points for trying to help.

Thanks for directing me to a 30 page help.jsp document, that helps. Wouldn't it be great just to have a "Close Question" button or something.

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