i get the following error:
[Wed Sep 17 13:49:15 2003] [error] VirtualHost _default_:443 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results

however, I cannot figure out where this is coming from. I don't have any virtual hosts setup with port 443. Is apache loading this from some other conf file? BTW, i am running the small Redhat 9 image

As I posted the question I thought of the answer. There is an ssl.conf file that get executed, it is the one that has a VHost definition. Any suggestions on what I should do?

You will have to post your conf files for more help.

Adam

i am not going to worry about ssl for now, so I just renamed the ssl.conf file to a temporary name. This solved my problem

Hi,

Instead of renaming the file, it is better to comment out the call to the ssl.conf file from the main config file.

Adam

I had the same vhosts problem. As you surmised, it comes from the SSL configuration file. Renaming that file is a fine way of fixing the problem -- it's called from a line in the main httpd.conf that just loads all *.conf files in a directory. There's no specific call to the ssl configuration file.

If you want to leave SSL working (at least I think it's working -- don't need it so haven't checked yet) you can edit the virtualhosts line in the ssl.conf file so that it just has an * instead of the _default_ line or a port number. According to my reading of the docs, since there's a listen 443 statement above the virtualhost, virtualhost will pick the port 443 from there and not the main listen 80. (Picks it from the closest "listen" statement.)

Am I smoking crack, or does this make sense? I'm new at this.

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