Question : Apache SSL Not Working Correctly

Hi! I'm having problems with SSL connections on my server. The story of how this problem started is kinda long, but I'll give you the brief (relevant) version...

I have a server running Debian. Originally, the server had Apache 1.3.33 installed and this was obviously not installed via apt-get but probably installed using an image or something when the server was originally set up.

The server's config files are in /etc/httpd/ and it was installed in /usr/sbin/httpd ...

Now, I decided to install and use Apache via apt-get because it makes it a lot easier to update and install modules, etc.

I did this and the config files were placed in /etc/apache/ and the installation path is /usr/sbin/apache.

I managed to migrate all the vhost configuration files. I then stopped the old web server, changed the init script and started the new Apache (1.3.34). Everything seems to be working fine now except SSL.

I installed libapache-mod-ssl and enabled it. I also added the SSL config to httpd.conf as per instructions. I have 3 hosts using SSL - one is a shared (self-signed) certificate used to log in to the control panel and view stats, etc. This is actually working as it should be. The second, with a dedicated IP is my own site - when I try to access this using https, Firefox gives me an error message (alert) saying "website has sent an incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12263". The third is a client's website also using a dedicated IP. When I try to access this site using https, I get an error page in Firefox saying "The connection was interrupted". So, I basically have 3 SSL-enabled vhosts, each responding differently when I try to connect to them.

When I switch back to the old Apache, SSL works fine. I'm using the same vhost config files for both Apache servers so I can easily switch between the two.

Any suggestions on how to trouble-shoot this would be greatly appreciated!



UPDATE
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After looking further into this, I discovered that if I comment out the statement from the vhosts' config files, SSL seems to work:


  ServerName www.xxxx.ie
  DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/html
  User web1
  Group web1
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/html/cgi-bin/
 
   
      AddHandler python-program .py
      PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
   
 
  php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web1/html/:/var/www/web1/phptmp/:/var/www/web1/files/:/var/www/web1/atd/
  php_admin_value file_uploads 1
  php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web1/phptmp/
#  
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/ssl.key/web1.key
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/ssl.crt/web1.crt
    SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
      nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
      downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
    $">
      SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
   
    n">
      SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
   
#  


This isn't really a solution though as the config files are automatically updated by the control panel software, so after the next update those comments will be automatically removed again. Hope someone will be able to shed some light on this...

Answer : Apache SSL Not Working Correctly

I think perhaps you want instead of , but I understand you are constrained by the control panel.  What panel are you using?