[CLUE-Tech] apache & ssl problem

Dave Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Sun Oct 28 18:50:09 MST 2001


P.S. The lynx error you get seems like the connection could be failing because lynx insists on SSL and
fails if it isn't there.  The IE error is what IE reports for most kinds of network errors (pretty
helpful, huh?)

Dave Anselmi wrote:

> Randy Arabie wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a redhat 7.1 system running apache-1.3.19-5.
> > This is a default apache install, standalone configuration,
> > with ssl running on port 443 as a virtual host.
> >
> > I can connect to my standard port 80, but can't to
> > the ssl port 443.
> >
> > I can't seem to find relevant error messages to resolve
> > the issue.
> >
> > An attempted lynx connection reports:
> >
> >         Looking up 192.168.1.200
> >         Making HTTPS connection to 192.168.1.200
> >         Retrying connection.
> >         Looking up 192.168.1.200
> >         Making HTTPS connection to 192.168.1.200
> >         Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.
> >
> >         lynx: Can't access startfile https://192.168.1.200/
> >
> > An attempted IE 5.x connection results in the standard
> > "Cannot find server or DNS Error" message.
> >
> > An attempted telnet connection to port 443 shows that httpd is
> > running on port 443:




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