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

["MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/31/01 at 1:58 PM Larry E. Smith wrote:

|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).
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make sure you type https://host.domain.com/admin
                   ^^^^^

(note "https", not "http")