Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

SSLMutex

Synopsis

                     SSLMutex 
                     type
                  

[server config]

Configures the SSL engines mutex (mutual exclusion) mechanism to synchronize multiple server processes’ access to the SSL session cache. There are three types that can be used:

file:/path/name

On Unix systems, you can specify a file that is used as the mutex lock. This option is not usable in the Win32 environment.

sem

This options uses an IPC semaphore process flag for synchronization on Unix and a Windows Mutex flag on Win32.

none

The default specifies that no exclusion mechanism is used. This may result in mangled information in the SSL session cache.