SSL don't run

Avenueduweb

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Hello,

I've got a problem with the SSL. I want to install a shared certificate SSL but my ssl don't run. When i open https://www.avenueduweb.net i've got an error. What is the problem ? The ssl is activate on this domain. Thanks. Bye.
 
Make sure that you account has ssl enabled. If your the administrator and ssl IS enabled on your account, you might want to make sure Apache is setup properly with mod_ssl.

What Operating system are you running and what branch of Apache? (version 1 or 2)
 
What sort of error(s) do you get? Is your firewall blocking port 443? What do your apache log files say? It is really hard to help, without more information.
 
Sorry... I've desactivate my firewall to test the ssl. And my error log apache say :

[Tue Jan 18 21:42:20 2005] [error] [client XX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Invalid method in request \\x80L\\x01\\x03

and my access log apache say :

arennes-XXXwanadoo.fr - - [18/Jan/2005:21:44:13 +0100] "\x80L\x01\x03" 501 - "-" "-"

Thanks for all. Bye.
 
I forgot anything, i've got webmin on this server and he's running in ssl mode. It is possible that is the problem ? And how do I do to stop the problem if that's the problem ? Thanks. Bye.
 
I am not that familiar with webmin, but I am guessing that it may be running in SSL mode, but on a non-standard port. At least that is where I would want my control panel to be.

From the log file, it looks like an SSL client trying to communicate with a non-ssl server. Make sure SSL is enabled on that domain, mod_ssl just tells us that the server is able to do SSL, not that this domain has it enabled.
 
Actually I just tried accessing it via IP address and it appears to not be accepting ssl connections at all. I would take a closer look at your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and insure that everything is in order there. Also it might not hurt to try the command 'service httpd restart, if it is a RedHat box. Just don't use the apachectl script, since it won't start things properly.
 
Thanks but i don't understand what is the problem, because in my phpinfo in loaded modules, i see "mod_ssl". How to install (or run) the mod_ssl ?

My httpd.conf :

<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>
LoadModule ssl_module modules/libssl.so
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>
AddModule mod_ssl.c
</IfDefine>

##
## SSL Support
##
## When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the
## standard HTTP port (see above) and to the HTTPS port
##

<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>
Listen 80
Listen 443
</IfDefine>


## SSL Global Context
##
## All SSL configuration in this context applies both to
## the main server and all SSL-enabled virtual hosts.
##

#
# Some MIME-types for downloading Certificates and CRLs
#
<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl
</IfDefine>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

# Pass Phrase Dialog:
# Configure the pass phrase gathering process.
# The filtering dialog program (`builtin' is a internal
# terminal dialog) has to provide the pass phrase on stdout.
SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin

# Inter-Process Session Cache:
# Configure the SSL Session Cache: First the mechanism
# to use and second the expiring timeout (in seconds).
#SSLSessionCache none
#SSLSessionCache shmht:logs/ssl_scache(512000)
#SSLSessionCache shmcb:logs/ssl_scache(512000)
SSLSessionCache dbm:logs/ssl_scache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300

# Semaphore:
# Configure the path to the mutual exclusion semaphore the
# SSL engine uses internally for inter-process synchronization.
SSLMutex file:logs/ssl_mutex

# Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG):
# Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the
# SSL library. The seed data should be of good random quality.
# WARNING! On some platforms /dev/random blocks if not enough entropy
# is available. This means you then cannot use the /dev/random device
# because it would lead to very long connection times (as long as
# it requires to make more entropy available). But usually those
# platforms additionally provide a /dev/urandom device which doesn't
# block. So, if available, use this one instead. Read the mod_ssl User
# Manual for more details.
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
#SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/random 512
#SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/random 512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 512

# Logging:
# The home of the dedicated SSL protocol logfile. Errors are
# additionally duplicated in the general error log file. Put
# this somewhere where it cannot be used for symlink attacks on
# a real server (i.e. somewhere where only root can write).
# Log levels are (ascending order: higher ones include lower ones):
# none, error, warn, info, trace, debug.
SSLLog logs/ssl_engine_log
SSLLogLevel error

</IfModule>

<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>

##
## SSL Virtual Host Context
##

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host
#DocumentRoot "/etc/httpd/htdocs"
#ServerName new.host.name
#ServerAdmin [email protected]ess
ErrorLog logs/error_log
TransferLog logs/access_log

# SSL Engine Switch:
# Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
SSLEngine on

# SSL Cipher Suite:
# List the ciphers that the client is permitted to negotiate.
# See the mod_ssl documentation for a complete list.
#SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL

# Server Certificate:
# Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate. If
# the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a
# pass phrase. Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again. A test
# certificate can be generated with `make certificate' under
# built time. Keep in mind that if you've both a RSA and a DSA
# certificate you can configure both in parallel (to also allow
# the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
#SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server-dsa.crt

# Server Private Key:
# If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this
# directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if
# you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure
# both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server-dsa.key

# Server Certificate Chain:
# Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the
# concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the
# certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively
# the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile
# when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server
# certificate for convinience.
#SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ca.crt

# Certificate Authority (CA):
# Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA
# certificates for client authentication or alternatively one
# huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)
# Note: Inside SSLCACertificatePath you need hash symlinks
# to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
# Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
#SSLCACertificatePath /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt
#SSLCACertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt


# Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL):
# Set the CA revocation path where to find CA CRLs for client
# authentication or alternatively one huge file containing all
# of them (file must be PEM encoded)
# Note: Inside SSLCARevocationPath you need hash symlinks
# to point to the certificate files. Use the provided
# Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.
#SSLCARevocationPath /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crl
#SSLCARevocationFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crl/ca-bundle.crl

# Client Authentication (Type):
# Client certificate verification type and depth. Types are
# none, optional, require and optional_no_ca. Depth is a
# number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate
# issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLVerifyDepth 10

# Access Control:
# With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based
# on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server
# variable checks and other lookup directives. The syntax is a
# mixture between C and Perl. See the mod_ssl documentation
# for more details.
#<Location />
#SSLRequire ( %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \
# and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq "Snake Oil, Ltd." \
# and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {"Staff", "CA", "Dev"} \
# and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \
# and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20 ) \
# or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192\.76\.162\.[0-9]+$/
#</Location>

# SSL Engine Options:
# Set various options for the SSL engine.
# o FakeBasicAuth:
# Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation. This means that
# the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control. The
# user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate.
# Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user
# file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'.
# o ExportCertData:
# This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and
# SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the
# server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client
# authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates
# into CGI scripts.
# o StdEnvVars:
# This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables.
# Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,
# because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually
# useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the
# exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.
# o CompatEnvVars:
# This exports obsolete environment variables for backward compatibility
# to Apache-SSL 1.x, mod_ssl 2.0.x, Sioux 1.0 and Stronghold 2.x. Use this
# to provide compatibility to existing CGI scripts.
# o StrictRequire:
# This denies access when "SSLRequireSSL" or "SSLRequire" applied even
# under a "Satisfy any" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied
# and no other module can change it.
# o OptRenegotiate:
# This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL
# directives are used in per-directory context.
#SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +CompatEnvVars +StrictRequire
<Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Files>
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>

# SSL Protocol Adjustments:
# The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown
# approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for
# the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown
# approach you can use one of the following variables:
# o ssl-unclean-shutdown:
# This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no
# SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received. This violates
# the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use
# this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where
# mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.
# o ssl-accurate-shutdown:
# This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a
# SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify
# alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in
# practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use
# this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation
# works correctly.
# Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP
# keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable
# keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this.
# Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround
# their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and
# "force-response-1.0" for this.
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

# Per-Server Logging:
# The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a
# compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis.
CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

</VirtualHost>

Thanks. Bye.
 
Did you try restarting? Also, look at the error.log for the startup messages as well as the messages displayed when you do a 'service httpd restart',
 
Sorry i didn't understanding what you want I do. I try restarting and my error log apache say :

[Wed Jan 19 02:02:24 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [warn] module perl_module is already loaded, skipping
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [warn] module mod_perl.c is already added, skipping
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [warn] module mod_php4.c is already added, skipping
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [warn] module mod_ssl.c is already added, skipping
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.10 mod_perl/1.29 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Wed Jan 19 02:02:25 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

Thank you very much for your help. Bye.
 
That still did not do the trick. The ssl engine does not appear on, since I can goto http://www.avenueduweb.net:443 fine, just not the https. You should also have a section in your main httpd.conf file that looks like this
Code:
<VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:443>
        ServerName localhost
        AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/.*)* /home/$1/public_html$2
        ServerAdmin [email][email protected][/email]
        DocumentRoot /var/www/secdocs
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
        CustomLog /var/log/httpd/homedir.log homedir
</VirtualHost>
or at least something similar to that, with a different DocumentRoot, ServerAdmin and certificate/key names.
 
Thank you very much. It's run now. In my httpd.conf it missed that :

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/homedir.log homedir

On <VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:443>.

Bye.
 
Hmmm...

That's the difference between having SSL turned on and not having it turned on for the domain.

Jeff
 
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