Wow, that was relatively painless in the end. I added to my iptables: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT and it all works. Nice pickup Joost. Thanks also Boyle. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joost de Heer [mailto:sanguis@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2005 8:59 PM > To: Vance Karimi > Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] Re: Help with Apache and SSL > > Vance Karimi said: > > 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. > > Firewall enabled or disabled? > > > 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. > > This definitely sounds like a firewall. Can you use a packet sniffer to > see if your tcp-sessions get past the SYN state? > > Joost > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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