[Tfug] Troubleshooting Apache crashing

[Judd Pickell]

I saw the Holy crap! line and thought along the lines of, Holy Config
files, Batman...

I can't trouble shoot SSL as I have not had to run an SSL server so
far, but what are the errors in your apache logs (/var/log/apache2/
for example).

I had a problem where we had the swap setup on a Debian box but it
wasn't being used, so apache would eventually crash on running out of
memory. Upgraded to Deb 4 and I haven't seen the problem since. (It
could also do with losing plesk on the server as well, I am not sure).

Sincerely,
Judd Pickell

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Matt Jacob <m at mattjacob.com> wrote:
> Holy crap! An actual Linux question!
>
> Let's start with this: Is the cert self-generated and self-signed or is
> it a live cert signed by a CA? Also, what version of Apache are you
> running? Finally, now would be a good time to post the relevant sections
> of your conf files:
>
> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
> /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf
>
> And wherever you've decided to put the SSLCertificateFile and
> SSLCertificateKeyFile directives.
>
> Let's see if we can't figure out what's going on here...
>
> Matt
>
> Mark Leinhos wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody.  I'm pretty new to Linux in general and I have a problem
>> that is outside of my skills.  I have a Debian box that someone else
>> setup running Apache with SSL.  Ever since the other guy installed a new
>> SSL certificate the service crashes randomly. Either Apache or SSL, I'm
>> not sure which. We've been just restarting the server to recover but
>> it's getting to be every day now and I need a real fix.
>>
>> I have no idea how to start troubleshooting this, so I appreciate any
>> bones you can throw my way.  Thanks.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
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