Re: Problem with SSL

["Tom Ray [Lists]" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Junaid Arshad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I have OpenSSL installed and also have .key and .crt  files at
> the correct place. I am not an administrator on this machine and only
> have root privileges on apache tree so don't exactly know if apache
> was installed with --enable-ssl option. I used "httpd -l" to get a
> list of compiled modules and it DOES NOT show mod_ssl.so. Does this
> mean that apache was not compiled with mod_ssl???
>   
Yup, Apache needs to be re-compiled using --enable-ssl and you'll need 
the path to the openssl stuff.
> To specify the SSL configuration, I use <IfModule mod_ssl> rather than
> <IfDefine SSL> which allows to me use ./apachectl startssl rather than
> to specify -DSSL flag...
>
>   
startssl is old, you should be using -DSSL
> I looked at the error logs and found that, I have the following error
> "Invalid method in request \x80=\x01\x03". After this I also checked
> my ssl.conf and found that I do have "SSLEngine on" in the virtual
> host but  My guess is that there is some problem with SSLEngine which
> causes https requests to be dealt by http causing an error....
>
>   
That error happens when Apache isn't running with the SSL. When you type 
in HTTPS you're making an invalid request method.
> Your thoughts on this please...:-)
>
> cheers
>
> junaid
>
>   
> > OK the big questions. Do you have OpenSSL installed? Did you compile
> > Apache with mod_ssl? Do you have the .key and .crt files in the correct
> > place on the server? Did you start apache with the -DSSL flag?
> >
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