Apaceh2 with SSL and multiple virtual host

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 26 March 2004 12:52 pm, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
> The most commong cause, IMHO, of the error you are seeing Reuben is that
> nowhere in the plethora of .conf files for apache2 do you have an entry
> telling apache which SSL server certificate to use.  Make sure that
> somewhere in your effective .conf files, you have an entry like below:
>
> SSLCertificateFile <full path and name of your server certificate file>

I've verified this and it does point to the correct file.

RDB


>
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I am trying to set up Apache to work with SSL (https://...). I have
> > apache2 and all the necessary packages from RHEL 3 distro.
> >I followed the instruction here step by step to create the key,
> > self-signed certificate, etc:
> >https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guid
> >e/s1-secureserver-accessingserver.html
> >
> >The server started without any problem, but when I tried to use
> >https://www.mydomain1.com
> >
> >my mozilla browser gives me :
> >"The connection to www.mydomain1.com has terminated unexpectedly. Some
> > data may have been transferred."
> >
> >and on the server error_log:
> >Invalid method in request !g!!
> >
> >I googled for that and tried everything that I found, and still did not
> > work. My setup is the following, i have 3 domain that points to this
> > server, let's just call them:
> >www.mydomain1.com
> >www.mydomain2.com
> >www.mydomain3.com
> >
> >So I set up VirtualHost in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for each of them.
> > Now, I only want www.mydomain3.com to be served securely as
> >https://www.mydomain3.com, while the other 2 just use the plain HTTP.
> >
> >Is this possible at all ?  Also, I want any request to
> >http://www.mydomain3.com be automatically redirected to the corresponding
> >https address.
> >
> >Another thing that I tried, is I copy the VirtualHost _default_ definition
> > in ssl.conf file, then replace it with the virtualhost info for
> > mydomain3.com. When I did that, https://www.mydomain3.com works, but
> > trying to access: http://www.mydomain2.com gives:
> >
> >BAD REQUEST
> >Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason:
> >You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the
> >HTTPS scheme to access this URL,  please.
> >Hint: https://www.mydomain3.com
> >
> >So I'm utterly confused. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks
> >RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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