I have apache2.2.6 installed. A graceful restart was done the other day and when I bring up the server-status screen now, I get a section of the code from the ssl.conf appearing under the Server Version line of the Apache-status screen. I have no idea what is causing this. This text is directly from the ssl.conf. The rest of the server status screen is fine. So I restart apache with apachectl graceful and the error below goes away. Now between the Server Version line and Server Built line is MaxSpareServer word.. Server Version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 MaxSpareServers Server Built: Nov 20 2007 14:07:33 Any suggestions? Thank you THIS IS THE CODE FROM THE SSL.CONF THAT WAS ON THE SERVER-STATUS SCREEN, THAT WENT AWAY WITH A GRACEFUL RESTART BUT THEN THE LINE ABOVE APPEARED. Server Version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 from client. When you need a different shutdown # approach you can use one of the following variables: # o ssl-unclean-shutdown: # This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no # SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received. This violates # the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use # this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where # mod_ssl sends the close notify alert. # o ssl-accurate-shutdown: # This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a # SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify # alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in # practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use # this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation # works correctly. # Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP # keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable # keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this. # Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround # their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and # "force-response-1.0" for this. SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # Per-Server Logging: # The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a # compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis. # disabled this on 10/10/04 -- no need to keep this log # commented out the following two lines #CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \ # "%t %h % Server Built: Nov 20 2007 14:07:33 # /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -V Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) Server built: Nov 20 2007 14:07:33 Server's Module Magic Number: Server loaded: APR 1.2.11, APR-Util 1.2.10 Compiled using: APR 1.2.11, APR-Util 1.2.10 Architecture: 32-bit Server MPM: Prefork threaded: no forked: yes (variable process count) Server compiled with.... -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork" -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE -D APR_HAS_MMAP -D APR_USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZE -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/apache2" -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/apache2/bin/suexec" -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid" -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status" -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log" -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"