How to reboot headless server with pass phrase

[satimis]

Hi folks,


I have a headless server which requires "pass phrase" to start Apache at boot. After remote rebooting I can ssh connect the server. But I can't start Apache because I have no way to keyin the password remotely.


After connection, running;

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 * Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server...                                   [Sat Jun 28 10:33:50 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:0 has no VirtualHosts
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                                         [fail]

Is there any glue. TIA


B.R.
satimis

[beecharmer]

Hi folks,


I have a headless server which requires "pass phrase" to start Apache at boot. After remote rebooting I can ssh connect the server. But I can't start Apache because I have no way to keyin the password remotely.


After connection, running;

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 * Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server...                                   [Sat Jun 28 10:33:50 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:0 has no VirtualHosts
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                                         [fail]

Is there any glue. TIA


B.R.
satimis

I have the same problem only I am not using a headless server. After booting into X, my Apache2 server is running but requires a pass phrase to work properly. I have to kill my apache2 server processes and the restart Apache2. At this point I am asked for my pass phrase.

There must be a better way.

OS unbuntu 8.10
Apache 2.2.9 (Ubuntu)
PHP 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.2 with Suhosin-Patch
mod_ssl 2.2.9 OpenSSL 0.9.8g
mod_perl 2.0.4 Perl v5.10.0

Thanks for any help.