Re: [cobalt-users] 404 Errors with new 128 bit ssl on Raq 3i

["Michael Zimmermann" <zim@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

you wrote:
> I installed the 128 bit security update on a Raq3i and did a self
> signed certificate for the box. After doing this, any time a bad
> URL is entered for any site on the box, a security / certificate
> warning window appears before displaying the default error file
> not found page.

This is handled in the Apache HTTP server. When an error is ecountered
by the httpd server, it sends an error-document instead (at least
that's the default RAQ3 installation).

One simple method is it (which I prefer anyway) to switch off
all special error handling and let the server send back the plain
error-code instead of the error-document.

What to do:
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As root

    cd /etc/httpd                            that's where the httpd config
files reside
    cp srm.conf srm.conf.save       better save old configs first :-)
    vi srm.conf                              edit the file as follows:

comment the following lines out

    ErrorDocument 401 /cobalt_error/authorizationRequired.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /cobalt_error/forbidden.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /cobalt_error/fileNotFound.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /cobalt_error/internalServerError.html

then save srm.conf and let the httpd re-read it's config-files with

    kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`


Done
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There is also the more luxurious way to allow each site to have it's
own error-documents, but I prefer it plain and simple. This way
search-spiders will get the plain error when they re-index the sites.


Michael