Apache 1.3 Fails To Load WebSphere Plugin

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Hey guys,

This is a problem which has been plauging me all week. After tons of plugin-rebuilds, troubleshooting, straces and a complete uninstall/reinstall of both Apache and WebSphere this issue is recurring. (Dell P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro SP 2).

The problem is these two lines in my httpd.conf file:

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LoadModule app_server_http_module "C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\bin\mod_app_server_http.dll"
WebSpherePluginConfig "C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\config\cells\plugin-cfg.xml"
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If I leave them in, Apache starts up abnormally; The command-line run never returns and it doesn't servive any requests. If I comment them out Apache starts up normally, the command-line run returns and it serves requests normally.

I've checked the Apache logs (and even the WebSphere logs even though WebSphere normally doesn't have to be running to start Apache with the plugin) and the only thing that gets output is in the error.log:

[Fri Jun 30 08:45:14 2006] [notice] Initializing the WebSphere Plugin


As I said we've tried rebuilding the plugin, re-installing, all kinds of stuff and nothing seems to work. Any help at all would be appreciated.

The plugin.cfg file is included below (I've checked the validity of the plugin-key files on another machine and they're fine):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Config>
<Log LogLevel="Error" Name="C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\logs\http_plugin.log"/>
<VirtualHostGroup Name="default_host">
<VirtualHost Name="*:9080"/>
<VirtualHost Name="*:80"/>
<VirtualHost Name="*:9443"/>
</VirtualHostGroup>
<VirtualHostGroup Name="admin_host">
<VirtualHost Name="*:9090"/>
<VirtualHost Name="*:9043"/>
</VirtualHostGroup>
<ServerCluster Name="server1_joeh_Cluster">
<Server Name="server1">
<Transport Hostname="joeh" Port="9080" Protocol="http"/>
<Transport Hostname="joeh" Port="9443" Protocol="https">
<Property name="keyring" value="C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\etc\plugin-key.kdb"/>
<Property name="stashfile" value="C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\etc\plugin-key.sth"/>
</Transport>
<Transport Hostname="joeh" Port="9090" Protocol="http"/>
<Transport Hostname="joeh" Port="9043" Protocol="https">
<Property name="keyring" value="C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\etc\plugin-key.kdb"/>
<Property name="stashfile" value="C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer\etc\plugin-key.sth"/>
</Transport>
</Server>
<PrimaryServers>
<Server Name="server1"/>
</PrimaryServers>
</ServerCluster>
<UriGroup Name="default_host_server1_joeh_Cluster_URIs">
<!-- <Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/*"/>-->
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="*.jsp"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/servlet/*"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/MBServlet/*"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/*.xml"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/*.txt"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/imageserver/*"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/locator/*"/>
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/*.do"/>
</UriGroup>
<Route ServerCluster="server1_joeh_Cluster"
UriGroup="default_host_server1_joeh_Cluster_URIs" VirtualHostGroup="default_host"/>
<UriGroup Name="admin_host_server1_joeh_Cluster_URIs">
<Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID" Name="/admin/*"/>
</UriGroup>
<Route ServerCluster="server1_joeh_Cluster"
UriGroup="admin_host_server1_joeh_Cluster_URIs" VirtualHostGroup="admin_host"/>
</Config>
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