See if this article has anything useful to make it work: <http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/how-to-configure-https-on-apache-2/> hth Jeff Shearer wrote: > I am having some trouble getting an SSL connection to work properly. It has been a while since I have done this. If I disable SSL I can get to the http site just fine. As a trouble shooting step I left the http site up and enabled the SSL site. Again I can get to the http site but not the https site. I am getting no helpful messages in my logs. I have my log level set to debug. > > I am running apache 2.2.14 > > I am using nearly the same configuration I had previously used for a SSL protected web server, but there are some difference. For one thing, when I received the .crt I was instructed to load an intermediary .crt file. I followed the instructions on the GeoTrust site and now have this SSL configuration: > > SSLEngine on > > SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL > > SSLCertificateFile "/files/thisdomain.conf/thisdomain.crt" > > SSLCertificateKeyFile "/files/thisdomain.conf/thisdomain.key" > > SSLCACertificateFile "/files/thisdomain.conf/intermediate.crt" > > SSLOptions +StdEnvVars +ExportCertData > > > here is the ls output from /files/thisdomain.conf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1989 Jun 16 23:55 apache.thisdomain.conf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1756 Jun 16 22:46 thisdomain.crt > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1675 Jun 16 23:30 thisdomain.key > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1675 Jun 16 22:44 thisdomainkey.pem > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1391 Jun 16 23:41 intermediate.crt > > > Another thing I wonder about is that when I created the .crt, I forgot to indicate that I was using Apache SSL. When I received the notice that the .crt was ready, the message indicated I was using some off brand, MS IIS. I spoke with my reseller's help desk and they indicated this was not a problem. Maybe they are wrong? > > When I created my key, it was a .pem file. Because my previously working site had a .key file, I copied the .pem to .key. My research indicates there is a difference beyond file extension. Could this be the problem? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx