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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Trying OpenSuse 12.3, but Apache's httpd server only partly works
From:       Per Jessen <per () computer ! org>
Date:       2013-03-28 7:26:36
Message-ID: kj0rbc$vd5$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Ted Byers wrote:

> I have done the usual things to enable SSL on this virtual machine.
> The intent for this machine is to test ideas regarding the usage of
> apache's web server on Suse 12.3, and while
> "http://localhost/info.php" works, and in fact it tells me that
> mod_ssl is loaded.  Perhaps I should modify that statement to read
> that I did the things I usually do on Windows and Ubuntu: an on those
> platforms, these things (ports open inthe firewall, virtual hosts
> created using the certificates I'd specified, ensuring that mod_ssl is
> loaded, &c.) were enough to get successful tests of SSL (the first of
> which was to use mod_rewrite to force all unencrypted requests to be
> made again using https - of course, this is domain/location specific).
>  NB: These things also seemed to be sufficient on Opensuse 12.1

You would also need to amend /etc/sysconfig/apache2:APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS
to include 'SSL' in the startup paramneters.

> However, the server, when accessed using
> "https://localhost:443/info.php" gives me an error saying the host is
> unreachable. 

It is probably not listening on port 443.  You can check that
with "netstat -ltn".



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