Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 gui admin dead

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:39 PM 7/17/2003, you wrote:
> Anyone have quick ideas on this ?
>
> The gui admin on our RaQ4 has decided to just give "page cannot be
> displayed" generic page not found browser error messages, when we try to
> access http://servername/admin
>
> Also gives same when trying
> http://servername:81/.cobalt/sysManage/index.html

this one would be https://

> Server is still displaying client websites without error (leading me to
> believe apache is fine, perl is fine, php is fine, mysql fine, and so
> on)
>
> Can ssh to the server just fine.
>
> And upon more investigation, here is what we see (note after each
> command issued browser was checked to see if it could access the gui,
> but each time still failed):
>
> [root /]# ./etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv status
> ahttpd dead but subsys locked
> [root /]# ./etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv reload
> Reloading admserv: ahttpd
> [root /]# ./etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv restart
> Stopping admin web server: ahttpd
> Starting admin web server:
> Invalid certificates for main site -- Not starting SSL
> /usr/sbin/httpd.admsrv
>
> [root /]# ./etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv stop
> Stopping admin web server: ahttpd
> [root /]# ./etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv start
> Starting admin web server:
> Invalid certificates for main site -- Not starting SSL
> /usr/sbin/httpd.admsrv
>
> [root /]#
>
>
> To my knowledge we had not ever configured the server to require or use
> SSL for the gui admin. (which is why the message about invalid
> certificates puzzles me)

did you have a selfsigned certificate?

> I'm hesitant to do reboot of the server (cause downtime to clients etc.)
> itself, would like to know if anyone else has ideas of what could be the
> cause here before I go to that step.

It is obvious the admin server having the problem.  Hopefully someone with 
the same problem will answer soon for you





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