The mod_limitipconn ebuild says: add '-D LIMITIPCONN -D INFO' to APACHE2_OPTS. but I think that should be instead: add '-D LIMITIPCONN -D STATUS' to APACHE2_OPTS. The following document states that "ExtendedStatus On" is required which is associated with "-D STATUS" as opposed to "-D INFO": http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn2-README
Hence: APACHE2_MOD_DEFINE="LIMITIPCONN INFO" in ebuild should be changed to LIMITIPCONN STATUS Does it work for you?
That's what was needed.. I also added a runtime dependency on the status module. commit 0bd7235f345592e2710d5975bc734086d1a197c4 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Aug 1 20:08:21 2016 -0400 www-apache/mod_limitipconn: new revision to fix the postinst instructions. The pkg_postinst() for this module used to suggest setting, APACHE2_OPTS="... -D LIMITIPCONN -D INFO" in your apache2 conf file. The "INFO" was a mistake; it should have been "STATUS" (to enable ExtendedStatus, as needed by mod_limitipconn). This commit fixes the postinst message, and adds a runtime dependency on mod_status for apache2 (previously missing). Gentoo-Bug: 479360 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28 ...limitipconn-0.24-r1.ebuild => mod_limitipconn-0.24-r2.ebuild} | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)