J.Lance Wilkinson wrote:
Sander Temme wrote:On Nov 30, 2010, at 8:37 PM, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote:But my httpd log files present an unexpected error each and every time a browser visits an SSL encrypted page (2 examples cited):So there is no discernible negative impact on the client?Correct. At the moment, the only negative impact is the considerably larger error log files being generated. Furthermore, watching the error log with tail -f, I can say that the errors are NOT being thrown EVERY time a browser visits an SSL encrypted page.User interface error unable to load Private Key 22439:error:0906A068:PEMroutines:PEM_do_header:bad password read:/on10/build-nd/G10U10B0B/usr/src/common/openssl/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c:401:
In hindsight, the fact these messages were not prefixed by typical Apache error log tokens like like [timestamp] [severity] [client] should have been the tipoff here. These errors are being thrown not by Apache, mod_ssl or mod_cosign. That explains why they don't appear at server startup, and normal client activity doesn't seem to be affected. The errors are being thrown by explicit executions of the OPENSSL utility from within PHP scripts on the application that was used to test out the new certificates -- an application used to, ironically, MANAGE SSL CERTIFICATES. The output from backtick'd calls to the OPENSSL utility was being output to syserr which of course PHP (using mod_php5) was shunting to the Apache error log for lack of a better place to put it. Should be safe to proceed with the other applications of these new certificates that are so critical today. Thanks for everybody's patience and indulgence -- clearly this should never have been posted here, but I was desperate. -- J.Lance Wilkinson ("Lance") InterNet: Lance.Wilkinson@xxxxxxx Systems Design Specialist - Lead Phone: (814) 865-4870 Digital Library Technologies FAX: (814) 863-3560 E3 Paterno Library Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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