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<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.1</a> > <a href="./">SSL/TLS</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>SSL/TLS Strong Encryption: FAQ</h1>
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<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/ssl/ssl_faq.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
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<p>The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
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he poses the right questions.</p>
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<p class="cite">-- <cite>Claude Levi-Strauss</cite></p>
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<p>This chapter is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and
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corresponding answers following the popular USENET tradition. Most of these
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questions occurred on the Newsgroup <code><a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix">comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix</a></code> or the mod_ssl Support
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Mailing List <code><a href="mailto:modssl-users@modssl.org">modssl-users@modssl.org</a></code>. They are collected at this place
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to avoid answering the same questions over and over.</p>
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<p>Please read this chapter at least once when installing mod_ssl or at least
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search for your problem here before submitting a problem report to the
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author.</p>
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<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#about">About The Module</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#installation">About Installation</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#aboutconfig">About Configuration</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#aboutcerts">About Certificates</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#aboutssl">About SSL Protocol</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#support">About Support</a></li>
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</ul></div>
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<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="about" id="about">About The Module</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#history">What is the history of mod_ssl?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#y2k">mod_ssl and Year 2000?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#wassenaar">mod_ssl and Wassenaar Arrangement?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="history" id="history">What is the history of mod_ssl?</a></h3>
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<p>The mod_ssl v1 package was initially created in April 1998 by <a href="mailto:rse@engelschall.com">Ralf S. Engelschall</a> via porting <a href="mailto:ben@algroup.co.uk">Ben Laurie</a>'s <a href="http://www.apache-ssl.org/">Apache-SSL</a> 1.17 source patches for
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Apache 1.2.6 to Apache 1.3b6. Because of conflicts with Ben
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Laurie's development cycle it then was re-assembled from scratch for
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Apache 1.3.0 by merging the old mod_ssl 1.x with the newer Apache-SSL
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1.18. From this point on mod_ssl lived its own life as mod_ssl v2. The
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first publicly released version was mod_ssl 2.0.0 from August 10th,
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1998. As of this writing (August 1999) the current mod_ssl version
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is 2.4.0.</p>
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<p>After one year of very active development with over 1000 working hours and
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over 40 releases mod_ssl reached its current state. The result is an
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already very clean source base implementing a very rich functionality.
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The code size increased by a factor of 4 to currently a total of over
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10.000 lines of ANSI C consisting of approx. 70% code and 30% code
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documentation. From the original Apache-SSL code currently approx. 5% is
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remaining only.</p>
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<p>After the US export restrictions for cryptographic software were
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opened, mod_ssl was integrated into the code base of Apache V2 in 2001.</p>
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<h3><a name="y2k" id="y2k">Is mod_ssl Year 2000 compliant?</a></h3>
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<p>Yes, mod_ssl is Year 2000 compliant.</p>
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<p>Because first mod_ssl internally never stores years as two digits.
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Instead it always uses the ANSI C & POSIX numerical data type
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<code>time_t</code> type, which on almost all Unix platforms at the moment
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is a <code>signed long</code> (usually 32-bits) representing seconds since
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epoch of January 1st, 1970, 00:00 UTC. This signed value overflows in
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early January 2038 and not in the year 2000. Second, date and time
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presentations (for instance the variable ``<code>%{TIME_YEAR}</code>'')
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are done with full year value instead of abbreviating to two digits.</p>
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<p>Additionally according to a <a href="http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#year2000">Year 2000
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statement</a> from the Apache Group, the Apache webserver is Year 2000
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compliant, too. But whether OpenSSL or the underlying Operating System
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(either a Unix or Win32 platform) is Year 2000 compliant is a different
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question which cannot be answered here.</p>
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<h3><a name="wassenaar" id="wassenaar">What about mod_ssl and the Wassenaar Arrangement?</a></h3>
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<p>First, let us explain what <dfn>Wassenaar</dfn> and its <dfn>Arrangement on
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Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and
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Technologies</dfn> is: This is a international regime, established 1995, to
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control trade in conventional arms and dual-use goods and technology. It
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replaced the previous <dfn>CoCom</dfn> regime. 33 countries are signatories:
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Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic,
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Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
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Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic
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of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden,
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Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. For more
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details look at <a href="http://www.wassenaar.org/">http://www.wassenaar.org/</a>.</p>
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<p>In short: The aim of the Wassenaar Arrangement is to prevent the build up
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of military capabilities that threaten regional and international security
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and stability. The Wassenaar Arrangement controls the export of
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cryptography as a dual-use good, i.e., one that has both military and
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civilian applications. However, the Wassenaar Arrangement also provides an
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exemption from export controls for mass-market software and free software.</p>
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<p>In the current Wassenaar <cite>List of Dual Use Goods and Technologies And
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Munitions</cite>, under <q>GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE (GSN)</q> it says
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<q>The Lists do not control "software" which is either: 1. [...] 2. "in
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the public domain".</q> And under <q>DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN
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THESE LISTS</q> one can find the definition: <q>In the public
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domain": This means "technology" or "software" which has been made
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available without restrictions upon its further dissemination. N.B.
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Copyright restrictions do not remove "technology" or "software" from being
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"in the public domain".</q></p>
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<p>So, both mod_ssl and OpenSSL are <q>in the public domain</q> for the purposes
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of the Wassenaar Agreement and its <q>List of Dual Use Goods and
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Technologies And Munitions List</q>.</p>
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<p>So, mod_ssl and OpenSSL are not affected by the Wassenaar Agreement.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="installation" id="installation">About Installation</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#coredump">Core dumps for HTTPS requests?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#mutex">Permission problem on SSLMutex</a></li>
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<li><a href="#mm">Shared memory and process size?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#entropy">PRNG and not enough entropy?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="coredump" id="coredump">When I access my website the first time via HTTPS I get a core dump?</a></h3>
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<p>There can be a lot of reasons why a core dump can occur, of course.
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Ranging from buggy third-party modules, over buggy vendor libraries up to
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a buggy mod_ssl version. But the above situation is often caused by old or
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broken vendor DBM libraries. To solve it either build mod_ssl with the
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built-in SDBM library (specify <code>--enable-rule=SSL_SDBM</code> at the
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APACI command line) or switch from <code>SSLSessionCache dbm:</code> to the
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newer <code>SSLSessionCache shm:</code>'' variant (after you have rebuilt
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Apache with MM, of course).</p>
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<h3><a name="mutex" id="mutex">When I startup Apache I get permission errors related to SSLMutex?</a></h3>
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<p>When you receive entries like ``<code>mod_ssl: Child could not open
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SSLMutex lockfile /opt/apache/logs/ssl_mutex.18332 (System error follows)
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[...] System: Permission denied (errno: 13)</code>'' this is usually
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caused by to restrictive permissions on the <em>parent</em> directories.
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Make sure that all parent directories (here <code>/opt</code>,
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<code>/opt/apache</code> and <code>/opt/apache/logs</code>) have the x-bit
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set at least for the UID under which Apache's children are running (see
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the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#user">User</a></code> directive of Apache).</p>
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<h3><a name="mm" id="mm">When I use the MM library and the shared memory cache each process grows
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1.5MB according to `top' although I specified 512000 as the cache size?</a></h3>
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<p>The additional 1MB are caused by the global shared memory pool Apache
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allocates for all modules and which is not used by mod_ssl for
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various reasons. So the actually allocated shared memory is always
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1MB more than what you specify on <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslsessioncache">SSLSessionCache</a></code>.
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But don't be confused by the display of `top': although is
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indicates that <em>each</em> process grow, this is not reality, of
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course. Instead the additional memory consumption is shared by
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all processes, i.e. the 1.5MB are allocated only once per Apache
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instance and not once per Apache server process.</p>
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<h3><a name="entropy" id="entropy">When I fire up the server, mod_ssl stops with the error
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"Failed to generate temporary 512 bit RSA private key", why?</a></h3>
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<p>Cryptographic software needs a source of unpredictable data
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to work correctly. Many open source operating systems provide
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a "randomness device" that serves this purpose (usually named
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<code>/dev/random</code>). On other systems, applications have to
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seed the OpenSSL Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) manually with
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appropriate data before generating keys or performing public key
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encryption. As of version 0.9.5, the OpenSSL functions that need
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randomness report an error if the PRNG has not been seeded with
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at least 128 bits of randomness. So mod_ssl has to provide enough
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entropy to the PRNG to work correctly. For this one has to use the
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<code>SSLRandomSeed</code> directives.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="aboutconfig" id="aboutconfig">About Configuration</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#parallel">HTTP and HTTPS with a single server?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ports">Where is the HTTPS port?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#httpstest">How to test HTTPS manually?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#hang">Why does my connection hang?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#refused">Why do I get connection refused?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#envvars">Why are the <code>SSL_XXX</code> variables missing?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#relative">How to switch with relative hyperlinks?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="parallel" id="parallel">Is it possible to provide HTTP and HTTPS with a single server?</a></h3>
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<p>Yes, HTTP and HTTPS use different server ports, so there is no direct
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conflict between them. Either run two separate server instances (one binds
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to port 80, the other to port 443) or even use Apache's elegant virtual
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hosting facility where you can easily create two virtual servers which
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Apache dispatches: one responding to port 80 and speaking HTTP and one
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responding to port 443 speaking HTTPS.</p>
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<h3><a name="ports" id="ports">I know that HTTP is on port 80, but where is HTTPS?</a></h3>
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<p>You can run HTTPS on any port, but the standards specify port 443, which
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is where any HTTPS compliant browser will look by default. You can force
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your browser to look on a different port by specifying it in the URL like
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this (for port 666): <code>https://secure.server.dom:666/</code></p>
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<h3><a name="httpstest" id="httpstest">How can I speak HTTPS manually for testing purposes?</a></h3>
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<p>While you usually just use</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>$ telnet localhost 80<br />
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GET / HTTP/1.0</code></p></div>
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<p>for simple testing the HTTP protocol of Apache, it's not so easy for
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HTTPS because of the SSL protocol between TCP and HTTP. But with the
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help of OpenSSL's <code>s_client</code> command you can do a similar
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check even for HTTPS:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>$ openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -state -debug<br />
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GET / HTTP/1.0</code></p></div>
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<p>Before the actual HTTP response you receive detailed information about the
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SSL handshake. For a more general command line client which directly
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understands both the HTTP and HTTPS scheme, can perform GET and POST
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methods, can use a proxy, supports byte ranges, etc. you should have a
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look at nifty <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">cURL</a>
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tool. With it you can directly check if your Apache is running fine on
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Port 80 and 443 as following:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>$ curl http://localhost/<br />
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$ curl https://localhost/</code></p></div>
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<h3><a name="hang" id="hang">Why does the connection hang when I connect to my SSL-aware Apache server?</a></h3>
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<p>Because you connected with HTTP to the HTTPS port, i.e. you used an URL of
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the form ``<code>http://</code>'' instead of ``<code>https://</code>''.
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This also happens the other way round when you connect via HTTPS to a HTTP
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port, i.e. when you try to use ``<code>https://</code>'' on a server that
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doesn't support SSL (on this port). Make sure you are connecting to a
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virtual server that supports SSL, which is probably the IP associated with
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your hostname, not localhost (127.0.0.1).</p>
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<h3><a name="refused" id="refused">Why do I get ``Connection Refused'' messages when trying to access my freshly
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installed Apache+mod_ssl server via HTTPS?</a></h3>
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<p>There can be various reasons. Some of the common mistakes is that people
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start Apache with just ``<code>apachectl start</code>'' (or
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``<code>httpd</code>'') instead of ``<code>apachectl startssl</code>'' (or
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``<code>httpd -DSSL</code>''. Or you're configuration is not correct. At
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least make sure that your <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</a></code>
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directives match your <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#virtualhost"><VirtualHost></a></code>
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directives. And if all fails, please do yourself a favor and start over with the
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default configuration mod_ssl provides you.</p>
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<h3><a name="envvars" id="envvars">In my CGI programs and SSI scripts the various documented
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<code>SSL_XXX</code> variables do not exist. Why?</a></h3>
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<p>Just make sure you have ``<code>SSLOptions +StdEnvVars</code>''
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enabled for the context of your CGI/SSI requests.</p>
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<h3><a name="relative" id="relative">How can I use relative hyperlinks to switch between HTTP and
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HTTPS?</a></h3>
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<p>Usually you have to use fully-qualified hyperlinks because
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you have to change the URL scheme. But with the help of some URL
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manipulations through mod_rewrite you can achieve the same effect while
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you still can use relative URLs:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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RewriteEngine on<br />
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RewriteRule ^/(.*):SSL$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]<br />
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RewriteRule ^/(.*):NOSSL$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
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</code></p></div>
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<p>This rewrite ruleset lets you use hyperlinks of the form
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<code><a href="document.html:SSL"></code></p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="aboutcerts" id="aboutcerts">About Certificates</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#keyscerts">What are Keys, CSRs and Certs?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#startup">Difference on startup?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#realcert">How to create a real cert?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ownca">How to create my own CA?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#passphrase">How to change a pass phrase?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#removepassphrase">How to remove a pass phrase?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#verify">How to verify a key/cert pair?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#badcert">Bad Certificate Error?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#keysize">Why does a 2048-bit key not work?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#hashsymlinks">Why is client auth broken?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#pemder">How to convert from PEM to DER?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#verisign">Verisign and the magic getca program?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sgc">Global IDs or SGC?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#gid">Global IDs and Cert Chain?</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="keyscerts" id="keyscerts">What are RSA Private Keys, CSRs and Certificates?</a></h3>
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<p>The RSA private key file is a digital file that you can use to decrypt
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messages sent to you. It has a public component which you distribute (via
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your Certificate file) which allows people to encrypt those messages to
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you. A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a digital file which contains
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your public key and your name. You send the CSR to a Certifying Authority
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(CA) to be converted into a real Certificate. A Certificate contains your
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RSA public key, your name, the name of the CA, and is digitally signed by
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your CA. Browsers that know the CA can verify the signature on that
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Certificate, thereby obtaining your RSA public key. That enables them to
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send messages which only you can decrypt.
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See the <a href="ssl_intro.html">Introduction</a> chapter for a general
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description of the SSL protocol.</p>
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<h3><a name="startup" id="startup">Seems like there is a difference on startup between the original Apache and an SSL-aware Apache?</a></h3>
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<p>Yes, in general, starting Apache with a built-in mod_ssl is just like
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starting an unencumbered Apache, except for the fact that when you have a
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pass phrase on your SSL private key file. Then a startup dialog pops up
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asking you to enter the pass phrase.</p>
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|
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<p>To type in the pass phrase manually when starting the server can be
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|
problematic, for instance when starting the server from the system boot
|
|
scripts. As an alternative to this situation you can follow the steps
|
|
below under ``How can I get rid of the pass-phrase dialog at Apache
|
|
startup time?''.</p>
|
|
|
|
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|
<h3><a name="realcert" id="realcert">Ok, I've got my server installed and want to create a real SSL
|
|
server Certificate for it. How do I do it?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Here is a step-by-step description:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Make sure OpenSSL is really installed and in your <code>PATH</code>.
|
|
But some commands even work ok when you just run the
|
|
``<code>openssl</code>'' program from within the OpenSSL source tree as
|
|
``<code>./apps/openssl</code>''.<br />
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Create a RSA private key for your Apache server
|
|
(will be Triple-DES encrypted and PEM formatted):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
Please backup this <code>server.key</code> file and remember the
|
|
pass-phrase you had to enter at a secure location.
|
|
You can see the details of this RSA private key via the command:<br />
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -noout -text -in server.key</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
And you could create a decrypted PEM version (not recommended)
|
|
of this RSA private key via:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.unsecure</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the server RSA private
|
|
key (output will be PEM formatted):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
Make sure you enter the FQDN ("Fully Qualified Domain Name") of the
|
|
server when OpenSSL prompts you for the "CommonName", i.e. when you
|
|
generate a CSR for a website which will be later accessed via
|
|
<code>https://www.foo.dom/</code>, enter "www.foo.dom" here.
|
|
You can see the details of this CSR via the command<br />
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl req -noout -text -in server.csr</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>You now have to send this Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to
|
|
a Certifying Authority (CA) for signing. The result is then a real
|
|
Certificate which can be used for Apache. Here you have two options:
|
|
First you can let the CSR sign by a commercial CA like Verisign or
|
|
Thawte. Then you usually have to post the CSR into a web form, pay for
|
|
the signing and await the signed Certificate you then can store into a
|
|
server.crt file. For more information about commercial CAs have a look
|
|
at the following locations:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li> Verisign<br />
|
|
|
|
<a href="http://digitalid.verisign.com/server/apacheNotice.htm">
|
|
http://digitalid.verisign.com/server/apacheNotice.htm
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li> Thawte Consulting<br />
|
|
<a href="http://www.thawte.com/certs/server/request.html">
|
|
http://www.thawte.com/certs/server/request.html
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li> CertiSign Certificadora Digital Ltda.<br />
|
|
<a href="http://www.certisign.com.br">
|
|
http://www.certisign.com.br
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li> IKS GmbH<br />
|
|
<a href="http://www.iks-jena.de/produkte/ca/">
|
|
|
|
http://www.iks-jena.de/produkte/ca/
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li> Uptime Commerce Ltd.<br />
|
|
<a href="http://www.uptimecommerce.com">
|
|
http://www.uptimecommerce.com
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li> BelSign NV/SA<br />
|
|
|
|
<a href="http://www.belsign.be">
|
|
http://www.belsign.be
|
|
</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
Second you can use your own CA and now have to sign the CSR yourself by
|
|
this CA. Read the next answer in this FAQ on how to sign a CSR with
|
|
your CA yourself.
|
|
You can see the details of the received Certificate via the command:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt</strong></code><br />
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Now you have two files: <code>server.key</code> and
|
|
<code>server.crt</code>. These now can be used as following inside your
|
|
Apache's <code>httpd.conf</code> file:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/this/server.crt
|
|
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/this/server.key
|
|
</pre>
|
|
The <code>server.csr</code> file is no longer needed.
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ownca" id="ownca">How can I create and use my own Certificate Authority (CA)?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The short answer is to use the <code>CA.sh</code> or <code>CA.pl</code>
|
|
|
|
script provided by OpenSSL. The long and manual answer is this:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Create a RSA private key for your CA
|
|
(will be Triple-DES encrypted and PEM formatted):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 1024</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
Please backup this <code>ca.key</code> file and remember the
|
|
pass-phrase you currently entered at a secure location.
|
|
You can see the details of this RSA private key via the command<br />
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -noout -text -in ca.key</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
And you can create a decrypted PEM version (not recommended) of this
|
|
private key via:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -in ca.key -out ca.key.unsecure</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Create a self-signed CA Certificate (X509 structure)
|
|
with the RSA key of the CA (output will be PEM formatted):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
You can see the details of this Certificate via the command:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl x509 -noout -text -in ca.crt</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Prepare a script for signing which is needed because
|
|
the ``<code>openssl ca</code>'' command has some strange requirements
|
|
and the default OpenSSL config doesn't allow one easily to use
|
|
``<code>openssl ca</code>'' directly. So a script named
|
|
<code>sign.sh</code> is distributed with the mod_ssl distribution
|
|
(subdir <code>pkg.contrib/</code>). Use this script for signing.
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Now you can use this CA to sign server CSR's in order to create real
|
|
SSL Certificates for use inside an Apache webserver (assuming
|
|
you already have a <code>server.csr</code> at hand):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ ./sign.sh server.csr</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
This signs the server CSR and results in a <code>server.crt</code> file.<br />
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="passphrase" id="passphrase">How can I change the pass-phrase on my private key file?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>You simply have to read it with the old pass-phrase and write it again
|
|
by specifying the new pass-phrase. You can accomplish this with the following
|
|
commands:</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p><code><strong>$ openssl rsa -des3 -in server.key -out server.key.new</strong></code><br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ mv server.key.new server.key</strong></code><br /></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here you're asked two times for a PEM pass-phrase. At the first
|
|
prompt enter the old pass-phrase and at the second prompt
|
|
enter the new pass-phrase.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="removepassphrase" id="removepassphrase">How can I get rid of the pass-phrase dialog at Apache startup time?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The reason why this dialog pops up at startup and every re-start
|
|
is that the RSA private key inside your server.key file is stored in
|
|
encrypted format for security reasons. The pass-phrase is needed to be
|
|
able to read and parse this file. When you can be sure that your server is
|
|
secure enough you perform two steps:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Remove the encryption from the RSA private key (while
|
|
preserving the original file):<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ cp server.key server.key.org</strong></code><br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key</strong></code><br />
|
|
|
|
<br />
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>Make sure the server.key file is now only readable by root:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ chmod 400 server.key</strong></code><br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p>Now <code>server.key</code> will contain an unencrypted copy of the key.
|
|
If you point your server at this file it will not prompt you for a
|
|
pass-phrase. HOWEVER, if anyone gets this key they will be able to
|
|
impersonate you on the net. PLEASE make sure that the permissions on that
|
|
file are really such that only root or the web server user can read it
|
|
(preferably get your web server to start as root but run as another
|
|
server, and have the key readable only by root).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>As an alternative approach you can use the ``<code>SSLPassPhraseDialog
|
|
exec:/path/to/program</code>'' facility. But keep in mind that this is
|
|
neither more nor less secure, of course.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="verify" id="verify">How do I verify that a private key matches its Certificate?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The private key contains a series of numbers. Two of those numbers form
|
|
the "public key", the others are part of your "private key". The "public
|
|
key" bits are also embedded in your Certificate (we get them from your
|
|
CSR). To check that the public key in your cert matches the public
|
|
portion of your private key, you need to view the cert and the key and
|
|
compare the numbers. To view the Certificate and the key run the
|
|
commands:</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><code><strong>$ openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt</strong></code><br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -noout -text -in server.key</strong></code></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The `modulus' and the `public exponent' portions in the key and the
|
|
Certificate must match. But since the public exponent is usually 65537
|
|
and it's bothering comparing long modulus you can use the following
|
|
approach:</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p><code><strong>$ openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in server.crt | openssl md5</strong></code><br />
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in server.key | openssl md5</strong></code></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>And then compare these really shorter numbers. With overwhelming
|
|
probability they will differ if the keys are different. BTW, if I want to
|
|
check to which key or certificate a particular CSR belongs you can compute</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><code><strong>$ openssl req -noout -modulus -in server.csr | openssl md5</strong></code></p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="badcert" id="badcert">What does it mean when my connections fail with an "alert bad certificate"
|
|
error?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Usually when you see errors like <code>OpenSSL: error:14094412: SSL
|
|
routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate</code> in the SSL
|
|
logfile, this means that the browser was unable to handle the server
|
|
certificate/private-key which perhaps contain a RSA-key not equal to 1024
|
|
bits. For instance Netscape Navigator 3.x is one of those browsers.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="keysize" id="keysize">Why does my 2048-bit private key not work?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The private key sizes for SSL must be either 512 or 1024 for compatibility
|
|
with certain web browsers. A keysize of 1024 bits is recommended because
|
|
keys larger than 1024 bits are incompatible with some versions of Netscape
|
|
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and with other browsers that
|
|
use RSA's BSAFE cryptography toolkit.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="hashsymlinks" id="hashsymlinks">Why is client authentication broken after upgrading from
|
|
SSLeay version 0.8 to 0.9?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The CA certificates under the path you configured with
|
|
<code>SSLCACertificatePath</code> are found by SSLeay through hash
|
|
symlinks. These hash values are generated by the `<code>openssl x509 -noout
|
|
-hash</code>' command. But the algorithm used to calculate the hash for a
|
|
certificate has changed between SSLeay 0.8 and 0.9. So you have to remove
|
|
all old hash symlinks and re-create new ones after upgrading. Use the
|
|
<code>Makefile</code> mod_ssl placed into this directory.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="pemder" id="pemder">How can I convert a certificate from PEM to DER format?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The default certificate format for SSLeay/OpenSSL is PEM, which actually
|
|
is Base64 encoded DER with header and footer lines. For some applications
|
|
(e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) you need the certificate in plain DER
|
|
format. You can convert a PEM file <code>cert.pem</code> into the
|
|
corresponding DER file <code>cert.der</code> with the following command:
|
|
<code><strong>$ openssl x509 -in cert.pem -out cert.der -outform DER</strong></code></p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="verisign" id="verisign">I try to install a Verisign certificate. Why can't I find neither the
|
|
<code>getca</code> nor <code>getverisign</code> programs Verisign mentions?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>This is because Verisign has never provided specific instructions
|
|
for Apache+mod_ssl. Rather they tell you what you should do
|
|
if you were using C2Net's Stronghold (a commercial Apache
|
|
based server with SSL support). The only thing you have to do
|
|
is to save the certificate into a file and give the name of
|
|
that file to the <code>SSLCertificateFile</code> directive.
|
|
Remember that you need to give the key file in as well (see
|
|
<code>SSLCertificateKeyFile</code> directive). For a better
|
|
CA-related overview on SSL certificate fiddling you can look at <a href="http://www.thawte.com/html/SUPPORT/server/softwaredocs/modssl.html">Thawte's mod_ssl instructions</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="sgc" id="sgc">Can I use the Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) facility (aka Verisign Global
|
|
ID) also with mod_ssl?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Yes, mod_ssl since version 2.1 supports the SGC facility. You don't have
|
|
to configure anything special for this, just use a Global ID as your
|
|
server certificate. The <em>step up</em> of the clients are then
|
|
automatically handled by mod_ssl under run-time. For details please read
|
|
the <code>README.GlobalID</code> document in the mod_ssl distribution.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="gid" id="gid">After I have installed my new Verisign Global ID server certificate, the
|
|
browsers complain that they cannot verify the server certificate?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>That is because Verisign uses an intermediate CA certificate between
|
|
the root CA certificate (which is installed in the browsers) and
|
|
the server certificate (which you installed in the server). You
|
|
should have received this additional CA certificate from Verisign.
|
|
If not, complain to them. Then configure this certificate with the
|
|
<code>SSLCertificateChainFile</code> directive in the server. This
|
|
makes sure the intermediate CA certificate is send to the browser
|
|
and this way fills the gap in the certificate chain.</p>
|
|
|
|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
|
|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="aboutssl" id="aboutssl">About SSL Protocol</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="#random">Random SSL errors under heavy load?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#load">Why has the server a higher load?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#establishing">Why are connections horribly slow?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#ciphers">Which ciphers are supported?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#adh">How to use Anonymous-DH ciphers</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#sharedciphers">Why do I get 'no shared ciphers'?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#vhosts">HTTPS and name-based vhosts</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#vhosts2">Why is it not possible to use Name-Based Virtual
|
|
Hosting to identify different SSL virtual hosts?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#lockicon">The lock icon in Netscape locks very late</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#msie">Why do I get I/O errors with MSIE clients?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#nn">Why do I get I/O errors with NS clients?</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="random" id="random">Why do I get lots of random SSL protocol errors under heavy server load?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>There can be a number of reasons for this, but the main one
|
|
is problems with the SSL session Cache specified by the
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslsessioncache">SSLSessionCache</a></code> directive. The DBM session
|
|
cache is most likely the source of the problem, so trying the SHM session cache or
|
|
no cache at all may help.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="load" id="load">Why has my webserver a higher load now that I run SSL there?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Because SSL uses strong cryptographic encryption and this needs a lot of
|
|
number crunching. And because when you request a webpage via HTTPS even
|
|
the images are transferred encrypted. So, when you have a lot of HTTPS
|
|
traffic the load increases.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="establishing" id="establishing">Often HTTPS connections to my server require up to 30 seconds for establishing
|
|
the connection, although sometimes it works faster?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Usually this is caused by using a <code>/dev/random</code> device for
|
|
<code>SSLRandomSeed</code> which is blocking in read(2) calls if not
|
|
enough entropy is available. Read more about this problem in the reference
|
|
chapter under <code>SSLRandomSeed</code>.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ciphers" id="ciphers">What SSL Ciphers are supported by mod_ssl?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Usually just all SSL ciphers which are supported by the
|
|
version of OpenSSL in use (can depend on the way you built
|
|
OpenSSL). Typically this at least includes the following:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>RC4 with MD5</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>RC4 with MD5 (export version restricted to 40-bit key)</li>
|
|
<li>RC2 with MD5</li>
|
|
<li>RC2 with MD5 (export version restricted to 40-bit key)</li>
|
|
<li>IDEA with MD5</li>
|
|
<li>DES with MD5</li>
|
|
<li>Triple-DES with MD5</li>
|
|
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p>To determine the actual list of supported ciphers you can
|
|
run the following command:</p>
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>$ openssl ciphers -v</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="adh" id="adh">I want to use Anonymous Diffie-Hellman (ADH) ciphers, but I always get ``no
|
|
shared cipher'' errors?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>In order to use Anonymous Diffie-Hellman (ADH) ciphers, it is not enough
|
|
to just put ``<code>ADH</code>'' into your <code>SSLCipherSuite</code>.
|
|
Additionally you have to build OpenSSL with
|
|
``<code>-DSSL_ALLOW_ADH</code>''. Because per default OpenSSL does not
|
|
allow ADH ciphers for security reasons. So if you are actually enabling
|
|
these ciphers make sure you are informed about the side-effects.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="sharedciphers" id="sharedciphers">I always just get a 'no shared ciphers' error if
|
|
I try to connect to my freshly installed server?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Either you have messed up your <code>SSLCipherSuite</code>
|
|
directive (compare it with the pre-configured example in
|
|
<code>httpd.conf-dist</code>) or you have chosen the DSA/DH
|
|
algorithms instead of RSA when you generated your private key
|
|
and ignored or overlooked the warnings. If you have chosen
|
|
DSA/DH, then your server no longer speaks RSA-based SSL ciphers
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(at least not until you also configure an additional RSA-based
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certificate/key pair). But current browsers like NS or IE only speak
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RSA ciphers. The result is the "no shared ciphers" error. To fix
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this, regenerate your server certificate/key pair and this time
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choose the RSA algorithm.</p>
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<h3><a name="vhosts" id="vhosts">Why can't I use SSL with name-based/non-IP-based virtual hosts?</a></h3>
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<p>The reason is very technical. Actually it's some sort of a chicken and
|
|
egg problem: The SSL protocol layer stays below the HTTP protocol layer
|
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and encapsulates HTTP. When an SSL connection (HTTPS) is established
|
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Apache/mod_ssl has to negotiate the SSL protocol parameters with the
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client. For this mod_ssl has to consult the configuration of the virtual
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server (for instance it has to look for the cipher suite, the server
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certificate, etc.). But in order to dispatch to the correct virtual server
|
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Apache has to know the <code>Host</code> HTTP header field. For this the
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HTTP request header has to be read. This cannot be done before the SSL
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handshake is finished. But the information is already needed at the SSL
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handshake phase. Bingo!</p>
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|
|
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<h3><a name="vhosts2" id="vhosts2">Why is it not possible to use Name-Based
|
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Virtual Hosting to identify different SSL virtual hosts?</a></h3>
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<p>Name-Based Virtual Hosting is a very popular method of identifying
|
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different virtual hosts. It allows you to use the same IP address and
|
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the same port number for many different sites. When people move on to
|
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SSL, it seems natural to assume that the same method can be used to have
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lots of different SSL virtual hosts on the same server.</p>
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|
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<p>It comes as rather a shock to learn that it is impossible.</p>
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|
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<p>The reason is that the SSL protocol is a separate layer which
|
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encapsulates the HTTP protocol. So the problem is that the SSL session
|
|
is a separate transaction that takes place before the HTTP session even
|
|
starts. Therefore all the server receives is an SSL request on IP
|
|
address X and port Y (usually 443). Since the SSL request does not
|
|
contain any Host: field, the server has no way to decide which SSL
|
|
virtual host to use. Usually, it will just use the first one it finds
|
|
that matches the port and IP address.</p>
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|
|
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<p>You can, of course, use Name-Based Virtual Hosting to identify many
|
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non-SSL virtual hosts (all on port 80, for example) and then you can
|
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have no more than 1 SSL virtual host (on port 443). But if you do this,
|
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you must make sure to put the non-SSL port number on the NameVirtualHost
|
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directive, e.g.</p>
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|
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.1:80
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</code></p></div>
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|
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<p>Other workaround solutions are: </p>
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|
|
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<p>Use separate IP addresses for different SSL hosts.
|
|
Use different port numbers for different SSL hosts.</p>
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|
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<h3><a name="lockicon" id="lockicon">When I use Basic Authentication over HTTPS the lock icon in Netscape browsers
|
|
still shows the unlocked state when the dialog pops up. Does this mean the
|
|
username/password is still transmitted unencrypted?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>No, the username/password is already transmitted encrypted. The icon in
|
|
Netscape browsers is just not really synchronized with the SSL/TLS layer
|
|
(it toggles to the locked state when the first part of the actual webpage
|
|
data is transferred which is not quite correct) and this way confuses
|
|
people. The Basic Authentication facility is part of the HTTP layer and
|
|
this layer is above the SSL/TLS layer in HTTPS. And before any HTTP data
|
|
communication takes place in HTTPS the SSL/TLS layer has already done the
|
|
handshake phase and switched to encrypted communication. So, don't get
|
|
confused by this icon.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="msie" id="msie">When I connect via HTTPS to an Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL server with Microsoft Internet
|
|
Explorer (MSIE) I get various I/O errors. What is the reason?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The first reason is that the SSL implementation in some MSIE versions has
|
|
some subtle bugs related to the HTTP keep-alive facility and the SSL close
|
|
notify alerts on socket connection close. Additionally the interaction
|
|
between SSL and HTTP/1.1 features are problematic with some MSIE versions,
|
|
too. You've to work-around these problems by forcing
|
|
Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL to not use HTTP/1.1, keep-alive connections or
|
|
sending the SSL close notify messages to MSIE clients. This can be done by
|
|
using the following directive in your SSL-aware virtual host section:</p>
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \<br />
|
|
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \<br />
|
|
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
<p>Additionally it is known some MSIE versions have also problems
|
|
with particular ciphers. Unfortunately one cannot workaround these
|
|
bugs only for those MSIE particular clients, because the ciphers
|
|
are already used in the SSL handshake phase. So a MSIE-specific
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#setenvif">SetEnvIf</a></code> doesn't work
|
|
to solve these problems. Instead one has to do more drastic
|
|
adjustments to the global parameters. But before you decide to do
|
|
this, make sure your clients really have problems. If not, do not
|
|
do this, because it affects all(!) your clients, i.e., also your
|
|
non-MSIE clients.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The next problem is that 56bit export versions of MSIE 5.x browsers have a
|
|
broken SSLv3 implementation which badly interacts with OpenSSL versions
|
|
greater than 0.9.4. You can either accept this and force your clients to
|
|
upgrade their browsers, or you downgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.4 (hmmm), or you
|
|
can decide to workaround it by accepting the drawback that your workaround
|
|
will horribly affect also other browsers:</p>
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>SSLProtocol all -SSLv3</code></p></div>
|
|
<p>This completely disables the SSLv3 protocol and lets those browsers work.
|
|
But usually this is an even less acceptable workaround. A more reasonable
|
|
workaround is to address the problem more closely and disable only the
|
|
ciphers which cause trouble.</p>
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>SSLCipherSuite
|
|
ALL:!ADH:<strong>!EXPORT56</strong>:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP</code>
|
|
</p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>This also lets the broken MSIE versions work, but only removes the
|
|
newer 56bit TLS ciphers.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Another problem with MSIE 5.x clients is that they refuse to connect to
|
|
URLs of the form <code>https://12.34.56.78/</code> (IP-addresses are used
|
|
instead of the hostname), if the server is using the Server Gated
|
|
Cryptography (SGC) facility. This can only be avoided by using the fully
|
|
qualified domain name (FQDN) of the website in hyperlinks instead, because
|
|
MSIE 5.x has an error in the way it handles the SGC negotiation.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>And finally there are versions of MSIE which seem to require that
|
|
an SSL session can be reused (a totally non standard-conforming
|
|
behaviour, of course). Connection with those MSIE versions only work
|
|
if a SSL session cache is used. So, as a work-around, make sure you
|
|
are using a session cache (see <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslsessioncache">SSLSessionCache</a></code> directive).</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="nn" id="nn">When I connect via HTTPS to an Apache+mod_ssl server with Netscape Navigator I
|
|
get I/O errors and the message "Netscape has encountered bad data from the
|
|
server" What's the reason?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>
|
|
The problem usually is that you had created a new server certificate with
|
|
the same DN, but you had told your browser to accept forever the old
|
|
server certificate. Once you clear the entry in your browser for the old
|
|
certificate, everything usually will work fine. Netscape's SSL
|
|
implementation is correct, so when you encounter I/O errors with Netscape
|
|
Navigator it is most of the time caused by the configured certificates.</p>
|
|
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|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="support" id="support">About Support</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="#resources">Resources in case of problems?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#contact">Support in case of problems?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#reportdetails">How to write a problem report?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#coredumphelp">I got a core dump, can you help me?</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="#backtrace">How to get a backtrace?</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="resources" id="resources">What information resources are available in case of mod_ssl problems?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The following information resources are available.
|
|
In case of problems you should search here first.</p>
|
|
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt>Answers in the User Manual's F.A.Q. List (this)</dt>
|
|
<dd><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/ssl/ssl_faq.html">
|
|
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/ssl/ssl_faq.html</a><br />
|
|
First look inside the F.A.Q. (this text), perhaps your problem is such
|
|
popular that it was already answered a lot of times in the past.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
<dt>Postings from the modssl-users Support Mailing List
|
|
<a href="http://www.modssl.org/support/">http://www.modssl.org/support/</a></dt>
|
|
<dd>Second search for your problem in one of the existing archives of the
|
|
modssl-users mailing list. Perhaps your problem popped up at least once for
|
|
another user, too.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="contact" id="contact">What support contacts are available in case of mod_ssl problems?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>The following lists all support possibilities for mod_ssl, in order of
|
|
preference, i.e. start in this order and do not pick the support possibility
|
|
you just like most, please.</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li><em>Write a Problem Report into the Bug Database</em><br />
|
|
<a href="http://www.modssl.org/support/bugdb/">
|
|
http://www.modssl.org/support/bugdb/</a><br />
|
|
This is the preferred way of submitting your problem report, because this
|
|
way it gets filed into the bug database (it cannot be lost) <em>and</em>
|
|
send to the modssl-users mailing list (others see the current problems and
|
|
learn from answers).
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><em>Write a Problem Report to the modssl-users Support Mailing List</em><br />
|
|
<a href="mailto:modssl-users@modssl.org">
|
|
modssl-users@modssl.org</a><br />
|
|
This is the second way of submitting your problem report. You have to
|
|
subscribe to the list first, but then you can easily discuss your problem
|
|
with both the author and the whole mod_ssl user community.
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="reportdetails" id="reportdetails">What information and details should I
|
|
provide when writing a bug report?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>You have to at least always provide the following information:</p>
|
|
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt>Apache and OpenSSL version information</dt>
|
|
<dd>The Apache version can be determined
|
|
by running ``<code>httpd -v</code>''. The OpenSSL version can be
|
|
determined by running ``<code>openssl version</code>''. Alternatively when
|
|
you have Lynx installed you can run the command ``<code>lynx -mime_header
|
|
http://localhost/ | grep Server</code>'' to determine all information in a
|
|
single step.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>The details on how you built and installed Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL</dt>
|
|
<dd>For this you can provide a logfile of your terminal session which shows
|
|
the configuration and install steps. Alternatively you can at least
|
|
provide the <code>configure</code> command line you used.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>In case of core dumps please include a Backtrace</dt>
|
|
<dd>In case your Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL should really dump core please attach
|
|
a stack-frame ``backtrace'' (see the next question on how to get it).
|
|
Without this information the reason for your core dump cannot be found.
|
|
So you have to provide the backtrace, please.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt>A detailed description of your problem</dt>
|
|
<dd>Don't laugh, I'm totally serious. I already got a lot of problem reports
|
|
where the people not really said what's the actual problem is. So, in your
|
|
own interest (you want the problem be solved, don't you?) include as much
|
|
details as possible, please. But start with the essentials first, of
|
|
course.
|
|
</dd>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="coredumphelp" id="coredumphelp">I got a core dump, can you help me?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>In general no, at least not unless you provide more details about the code
|
|
location where Apache dumped core. What is usually always required in
|
|
order to help you is a backtrace (see next question). Without this
|
|
information it is mostly impossible to find the problem and help you in
|
|
fixing it.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="backtrace" id="backtrace">Ok, I got a core dump but how do I get a backtrace to find out the reason for it?</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Follow the following steps:</p>
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Make sure you have debugging symbols available in at least
|
|
Apache. On platforms where you use GCC/GDB you have to build
|
|
Apache+mod_ssl with ``<code>OPTIM="-g -ggdb3"</code>'' to achieve this. On
|
|
other platforms at least ``<code>OPTIM="-g"</code>'' is needed.
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Startup the server and try to produce the core-dump. For this you perhaps
|
|
want to use a directive like ``<code>CoreDumpDirectory /tmp</code>'' to
|
|
make sure that the core-dump file can be written. You then should get a
|
|
<code>/tmp/core</code> or <code>/tmp/httpd.core</code> file. When you
|
|
don't get this, try to run your server under an UID != 0 (root), because
|
|
most "current" kernels do not allow a process to dump core after it has
|
|
done a <code>setuid()</code> (unless it does an <code>exec()</code>) for
|
|
security reasons (there can be privileged information left over in
|
|
memory). Additionally you can run ``<code>/path/to/httpd -X</code>''
|
|
manually to force Apache to not fork.
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Analyze the core-dump. For this run <code>gdb /path/to/httpd
|
|
/tmp/httpd.core</code> or a similar command has to run. In GDB you then
|
|
just have to enter the <code>bt</code> command and, voila, you get the
|
|
backtrace. For other debuggers consult your local debugger manual. Send
|
|
this backtrace to the author.
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
</div></div>
|
|
<div class="bottomlang">
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<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/ssl/ssl_faq.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
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