While setting up Apache for Windows to use SSPI so that I could implement Alain O’Dea’s method of combining Active Directory authentication with SVN I ran into an interesting path problem.
After following Alain’s instructions I kept receiving the following error:
SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes
After some investigation it runs out that this is due to the way the path in the configuration file was being parsed. This is partially due to my environment. On Windows Server 2008 when installing a 32-bit application, the installer drops the files into C:\Program Files (x86)\… unless otherwise directed.
It turns out that the extra set of parenthesis was causing Apache to bomb out. I tried wrapping the path in quotes, as well as falling back to the Windows 98 naming scheme of using C:\Progra~2\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\… but that didn’t work out either. What I ended up doing was making a shortcut on the root of the C: drive called apache that pointed to the contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\ making the final path in the configuration file:
C:/apache/Apache2.2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)
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