Henrik, Your help is much appreciated, I have the following after a restart: root@squidvm:~# /etc/init.d/squid restart Restarting Squid HTTP proxy: squidEnter PEM pass phrase: . root@squidvm:~# tail /var/log/messages Oct 20 07:43:36 squidvm -- MARK -- Oct 20 07:47:03 squidvm squid[7216]: Squid Parent: child process 7218 exited with status 0 Oct 20 07:47:13 squidvm (squid): Failed to acquire SSL private key '/root/fairgocarbon.key': error:0906406D:PEM routines:PEM_def_callback:problems getting password Oct 20 07:47:13 squidvm squid[7398]: Squid Parent: child process 7400 started The restart accepted the pass phrase without error? what am I doing wrong? Regards, Andrew. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > tis 2009-10-20 klockan 07:45 +1100 skrev Stonie: >> Thanks for the reply Henrik, >> >> Still the same symptoms with those settings. >> >> I have tried both >> >> https_port my.external.ip:443 >> https_port my.external.ip:443 cert=/root/mysslsite.crt >> key=/root/mysslsite.key defaultsite=www.mysslsite.com.au vhost vport > > I meant the second (hence the .... dots). > >> the first fails with a "cant find cert" on startup, and the second has >> the same symptoms as with my original config. > > And no significant errors logged at startup or in cache.log? > > Regards > Henrik > > -- Interested in purchasing Australian produced carbon offsets? Visit www.fairgocarbon.com.au Please consider the environment before printing this email.