[users@httpd] Apache crashes at some point under SSL

["Wagner, Jay" <jw...@scn.spawar.navy.mil>]

My server configuration is Apache/1.3.27, Interface: mod_ssl/2.8.12,
Library: OpenSSL/0.9.6h
on Windows 2000 

Problem:

I have setup a server using SSL that seems to properly authenticate with the
client and I am able to access the secure resources on the website. At some
point Apache seems to go down with only the indication of "Ops, no RSA or
DSA server certificate found?!..". I also have seen in an error.log "[Tue
Nov 04 09:21:56 2003] [error] Server ran out of threads to serve requests.
Consider raising the ThreadsPerChild setting" in which I could change the
setting in the httpd.conf, but this has not always occurred when it went
down.

httpd.conf setting:

Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
ThreadsPerChild 50 <<<<assume I need to increase.

In the "ssl.log"

Just to let you know I changed any reference to the server name to
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
...
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:25 00860] [info]  Subsequent (No.3) HTTPS request
received for child 16 (server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:25 00860] [info]  Connection: Client IP: xx.xx.xx.xx,
Protocol: SSLv3, Cipher: RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:25 00860] [info]  Connection to child 24 closed with
standard shutdown (server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443, client 10.100.13.51)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:25 00860] [info]  Initial (No.1) HTTPS request received
for child 26 (server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:25 00860] [info]  Connection to child 46 closed with
standard shutdown (server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443, client 10.100.13.51)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:27 00860] [info]  Connection to child 1 established
(server xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443, client xx.xx.xx.xx)
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:27 00860] [info]  Connectio[03/Nov/2003 16:38:30 00652]
[info]  Init: Configuring server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443 for SSL protocol
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:30 00652] [error] Init: (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443) Ops, no
RSA or DSA server certificate found?!
[03/Nov/2003 16:38:30 00652] [error] Init: (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443) You have
to perform a *full* server restart when you added or removed a certificate
and/or key file
[04/Nov/2003 08:00:12 02568] [info]  Init: Loading certificate & private key
of SSL-aware server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:4443
...

As you can see when the server went down at Nov 3, 16:38 without a clear
reason.

Is there anyone that might have a better understanding of what my probelm
is? And if I could provide any more info please let me know.

Thanks,

Jay Wagner

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