Not sure exactly why things are different here, but I have two servers running on various ports. This one (Dell piece of crap running Linux) has Apache listening on 80 and 443. The other server, an Apple Powerbook running OS X 10.4 is running a subversion server, and it’s listening on port 443. The problem is that when I restart, apache doesn’t restart on it’s own. (Haven’t configured that yet, darnit). So, the other day when I had to restart the lappy, I spent the better part of a day trying to get it up and running again. Unfortunately, I forgot one extremely vital snippet of information:

HTTPD -k start -DSSL

When I got it configured the first time, my friend and I scoured through the online resource pages for Apache, and found this info for starting up Apache with SSL. The confusion? My other server I simply have the “Listen 443″ directive in my httpd.conf file for Apache. Anyone know the reason why this is different on my Apple server, or how I can configure it similarly? Any help would be appreciated. And a little piece of advice, if your time is of any worth to you: remember to write this crap down!

Those keywords would be:
subversion, sub version, svn, svn server, Apache, restart, secure server, httpd.conf, configuration

 

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