Re: [apache-ssl] SSL / MS FrontPage coexistence problem
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Re: [apache-ssl] SSL / MS FrontPage coexistence problem




> FrontPage is therefore dependant on that second call to init_modules() 
> that the SSL patch has removed (because the SSL module does not like to
> be initialized twice.) 

A similar problem affects FastCGI initialization in mod_fastcgi.  But it
is possible to patch mod_fastcgi in an accommodating fashion, because it
is available as source  :-)

Ben, would it be safe to invert the sense of this operation in Apache-SSL? 
-- mod_fastcgi, for example, does the following detect: 

    /*
     * This hack will prevent the starting of the process manager
     * the first time Apache reads its configuration files.
     */
    if((restarts==0)&&(standalone==1)) {
        restarts++;
        readingConfig = FALSE;
        return;
    }

which, I believe, causes it to run only on the second round of
init_modules.  Could Apache-SSL do something similar?

As more modules appear with picky behavior concerning this startup
activity of Apache, it does raise a number of interoperability problems
with the Apache-SSL patch set.

- Rob