Hello,
three weeks I set up a Subversion/Apache2 on my private

OpenBSD 4.2 to be publicly available. It was not migrated

from an earlier system. Doing this I hade cause to restart

Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.2 repeatedly until my access control

worked correctly. This disclosed a shortcoming in Apache 1.3,

which I verified anew some five minutes ago.
The standard procedure I use is
# apachectl2 configtest

# apacheclt2 restart
which works perfectly for Apache 2.2, but the counterpart
# apachectl configtest

# apachectl restart
claims to restart httpd, but in fact only kills off the

previous service without starting a new one. However,
# apachectl configtest

# apachectl stop

# apachectl start
is perfectly in order. When reading the log file, it is

clear that of some unknown reason one shared module

"mod_auth_digest.so" cannot be located, although it is

present in the indicated directory and nowhere else:
> Syntax error on line 224 of /conf/httpd.conf:

quoted text
> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_digest.so

> into server: File not found

Thus "apachectl start" can locate a module that

"apachectl restart" cannot find. I find the responsible

maintainer ought to look into this matter, although the

above workaround is perfectly viable and which used

until I had my service up and running as intended.
Regards
M E Andersson