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Asked: 2013-11-17 23:28:54 +0800 CST

Apache 2.4 reload succeeds but restart fails when using SSL

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On Apache 2.4, reload succeeds but restart fails when using SSL. Or to say it another way, the SSL configuration directives appear to work perfectly when doing a service reload but not a service restart.

The following sequence of commands:

service apache2 start
a2ensite secure.example.com
service apache2 reload

Allows me to browse https://secure.example.com without any errors, but a subsequent service apache2 restart with no interim changes to any configuration files causes apache2 to fail to start, with the message:

The apache2 instance did not start within 20 seconds. Please read the log files to discover problems

I can then use:

a2dissite secure.example.com
service apache2 start
a2ensite secure.example.com
service apache2 reload

And again access https://secure.example.com. The situation seems to be related to the use of SSL, as I can comment out the SSL configuration bits from secure.example.com and do an Apache restart without any issues.

Ubuntu 13.10, Linux 3.0.20-xenU, Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu), OpenSSL/1.0.1e

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