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Subject:    [opensuse] Re: Trying OpenSuse 12.3, but Apache's httpd server only partly works
From:       Ted Byers <r.ted.byers () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-03-28 12:17:57
Message-ID: CAOTG1hWrFfJuURcC0=wNmjm80mF8rCwZXfLsxhjzEpA+K0i6fQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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Per, Alvin,

That was it.  Thanks.

Ted

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers@gmail.com> 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
>
> However, the server, when accessed using
> "https://localhost:443/info.php" gives me an error saying the host is
> unreachable.  I ran /usr/bin/gensslcert to create a dummy certificate,
> and related files, again for testing purposes only (and using dolphin,
> I see the files it is supposed to create, and with the timestamp that
> is rational given the time I ran it.  I made an ssl virtual host, and
> set the righ t file names for the certificates, as well as the proper
> document root.  And I made sure that the firewall permits access both
> on port 80 for http and port 443 for https.
>
> Apache's error log actually tells me nothing (there are no errors in
> it, from the time I first installed and started httpd.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why SSL may fail on this platform?
> Or does anyone have a checklist as to what to verify regarding
> apache's httpd server properly serving pages over https on opensuse
> 12.3?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ted



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