Re: [cobalt-users] SSL giving me a headache

["Larry E. Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:39:19PM -0000, OXLink Ltd wrote:
> Seeking some pearls of wisdom here
> 
  The "pearls" are debatable....

> Raq4i running quite happily until I decided to play with SSL. Set up 
> correctly, I believe, a self-certified certificate to use with the admin 
> functions.
> 
> However can't now use any of the server admin pages and on looking 
> at the adm_error log see lines like
> 
> [Wed Oct 31 19:30:01 2001] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed: 
> HTTP spoken on HTTPS port; trying to send HTM
> L error page (OpenSSL library error follows)
> [Wed Oct 31 19:30:01 2001] [error] OpenSSL: error:1407609C:SSL 
> routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request [Hi
> nt: speaking HTTP to HTTPS port!?]
> 
> Any clues as to what's going on here ?
> 
> How can I switch off SSL and get back to the admin pages when I 
> can't actually get to them ?
> 
> As usual any help much appreciated.
> 
> Lance, UK
> 

Lance,

  Sounds like you are typing in
  "http://host.somedomain.com/admin"; (I presume).

  What should happen is you should get a window up (at least in
  Opera, Netscape, IE, etc that I have tried) telling you that
  the remote system is offering you a security certificate.  YOU
  MUST ACCEPT THE CERT or the connection will ALWAYS fail...

  Once you accept the cert, then it should kick into https mode
  (secured) and you should get your little key/lock on your
  browser.  I have found that some browsers have to empty cache,
  close the browser and then re-connect after installing/changing
  SSL since they "hold" the last entries/connections and try it
  no matter what...

Larry Smith
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