SSL and Apache

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Mar 9 10:04:08 MST 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 09:41 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> I'm running into a problem setting up ssl on a virtual host.
> Say I have a domain
> www.example.org
> 
> and I want to access it via https://www.example.org
> 
> I've generated the key and purchased the certs etc...
> and placed them in the dir /ssl
> 
> now in httpd.conf (I've moved it out of ssl.conf because I couldn't get 
> it to work there)
> I have the following
> 
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
> SSLEngine on
> SSLCipherSuite 
> ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/"
> ServerName  example.org
> ServerAlias www.example.org
> ErrorLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log
> TransferLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log
> 
> SSLCertificateFile /ssl/example.org.crt
> SSLCertificateKeyFile /ssl/example.key
> 
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> When I save, it ask me for my pass phase. and I restart apache. When I 
> try to go to https://www.example.org however I get
> "The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.example.org" 
> What am I doing wrong? Did I forget something?
----
does the 'apache' user (the uid that apache runs under) have 'read'
access to the crt/key files?

Craig



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