Hi list, With the number of threads regarding Apache and SSL, you'd think I would find a solution...sigh...I feel I'm missing something trivial. I appologise for the long post. I performed a build of 2.0.54 with mod_ssl and installed on Fedora core 3. I built with the following configure options: % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-ssl --enable-so All is well and I can get to the default apache page using IE/Mozilla. I created the cert and cert request, created my own CA and signed my csr according to: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html Copied server.key to conf/ssl.key/. Copied server.crt to conf/ssl.crt/. Configuration files: conf/httpd.conf is stock standard and includes conf/ssl.conf, however I changed the log level to 'info'. conf/ssl.conf looks like so (without comments): SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLRandomSeed connect builtin <IfDefine SSL> Listen 443 AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin SSLSessionCache dbm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_scache SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300 SSLMutex file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex <VirtualHost _default_:443> DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs ServerName www.mydomain.com.au ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ErrorLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log TransferLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key <Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Files> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars </Directory> SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 CustomLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log \ "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b" </VirtualHost> </IfDefine> I start up apache: ./apachectl startssl error_log reads: [Wed Jun 29 13:00:12 2005] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library [Wed Jun 29 13:00:12 2005] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Jun 29 13:00:12 2005] [info] Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aware server [Wed Jun 29 13:00:12 2005] [info] Init: Requesting pass phrase via builtin terminal dialog [Wed Jun 29 13:00:18 2005] [info] Init: Wiped out the queried pass phrases from memory [Wed Jun 29 13:00:18 2005] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Configuring server for SSL protocol [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Server: Apache/2.0.54, Interface: mod_ssl/2.0.54, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7a [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aware server [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] www.mydomain.com.au:443 reusing existing RSA private key on restart [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Configuring server for SSL protocol [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Server: Apache/2.0.54, Interface: mod_ssl/2.0.54, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.7a [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7a configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Jun 29 13:00:19 2005] [info] Server built: Jun 29 2005 01:50:33 To do the basic test: $ openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 I get the following to stdout: ..... No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 1357 bytes and written 340 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Server public key is 1024 bit SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Session-ID: C883239FD990EC30F05A3E127968FD62D08A2D0B17D468965FFDB3989B7ECE7D Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: 978C61CA859767E541F22D7828FEE851D636AB35A3E1F04F2172214E9DCF8C673FAE3427454B FF0769033382A7FD18DC Key-Arg : None Krb5 Principal: None Start Time: 1120022013 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate) I then enter: $ GET / HTTP/1.0 $ <CR> And receive the html headers and response as expected. Error_log shows: [Wed Jun 29 13:13:33 2005] [info] Connection to child 2 established (server www.mydomain.com.au:443, client 127.0.0.1) [Wed Jun 29 13:13:33 2005] [info] Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Jun 29 13:16:00 2005] [info] Initial (No.1) HTTPS request received for child 2 (server www.smsticketing.com.au:443) [Wed Jun 29 13:16:00 2005] [info] Connection to child 2 closed with standard shutdown(server www.mydomain.com.au:443, client 127.0.0.1) When I run curl: $ curl --insecure https://www.mydomain.com.au/ produces the same result above. $ curl https://www.mydomain.com.au/ I get the following to stdout (I presume as expected since I was my own CA) curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle" of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). The default bundle is named curl-ca-bundle.crt; you can specify an alternate file using the --cacert option. If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might not match the domain name in the URL). If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use the -k (or --insecure) option. Error_log shows: [Wed Jun 29 13:25:55 2005] [info] Connection to child 0 established (server www.smsticketing.com.au:443, client 10.1.3.120) [Wed Jun 29 13:25:55 2005] [info] Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Jun 29 13:25:55 2005] [info] SSL library error 1 in handshake (server www.mydomain.com.au:443, client 10.1.3.120) [Wed Jun 29 13:25:55 2005] [info] SSL Library Error: 336151576 error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca [Wed Jun 29 13:25:55 2005] [info] Connection to child 0 closed with abortive shutdown(server www.mydomain.com.au:443, client 10.1.3.120) In the browser: In IE, I get the 'The page cannot be displayed' page. In Firefox I get an alert stating "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.mydomain.com.au". Neither produce entries in the logs. I feel my self signed cert may be the cause. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. 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