HTTPS not working

Hi,

I configured Apache-2.0.51 on Fedora Core 2 with SSL following the
instructions provided here:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/apache2.html

However, when I try to access the site, I keep seeing the default web
page all the time. I even made an index.html page in /var/www/html, but
I can't manage to bring it up on the browser.

When I tried the '/usr/sbin/apachectl status' command, I got the
following error:
ERROR at dump.c:188: Connection refused

Googling this error didn't help to find a solution. Netstat and nmap
show that port 443 is open and being listened on.

What's the problem?

Thanks,
Saurabh.

Saurabh Barve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I configured Apache-2.0.51

Don't use that: it had a bad bug.

> on Fedora Core 2 with SSL following the
> instructions provided here:
> http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/apache2.html

If you follow instructions from some third-party site, make sure
you don't have another version installed alongside it. That way
lies confusion.

Do you have any reason to suppose the site in question knows what
it's talking about? (That's a straight question; I haven't looked).

> However, when I try to access the site, I keep seeing the default web
> page all the time. I even made an index.html page in /var/www/html, but
> I can't manage to bring it up on the browser.

Where does /var/www/html come from?

> When I tried the '/usr/sbin/apachectl status' command, I got the

And /usr/sbin/apachectl?

Those are not the paths you get from a standard apache install. I don't
know what you get if you install from RPMs, but I expect redhat's docs
will tell you.

> following error:
> ERROR at dump.c:188: Connection refused

That looks _very_ nonstandard: there's no dump.c in apache.

--
Nick Kew

Well, I got apache to work finally. Had some incorrect settings in the
httpd.conf file.

The httpd.conf file tells me to put my html documents in /var/www/html.
In particular these lines:

<snip>

#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

</snip>

apachectl in all my machines running either Redhat linux / Fedora Core 2
is located in /usr/sbin. apache is installed from rpms in all these
machines. I'll update it to 2.0.53 as soon as I get the rpm.

However, I still get the error about dump.c. Maybe that is because of
the bad bug you were talking about.

Trying to locate a dump.c file returns only one result;
/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-1.771_FC2/kernel/dump.c

However, I had this error even when I was using the linux-2.6-10.1.770
kernel.

Saurabh.

Nick Kew wrote:
> Saurabh Barve wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I configured Apache-2.0.51
>
>
> Don't use that: it had a bad bug.
>
>
>> on Fedora Core 2 with SSL following the
>>instructions provided here:
>>http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/apache2.html
>
>
> If you follow instructions from some third-party site, make sure
> you don't have another version installed alongside it. That way
> lies confusion.
>
> Do you have any reason to suppose the site in question knows what
> it's talking about? (That's a straight question; I haven't looked).
>
>
>>However, when I try to access the site, I keep seeing the default web
>>page all the time. I even made an index.html page in /var/www/html, but
>>I can't manage to bring it up on the browser.
>
>
> Where does /var/www/html come from?
>
>
>>When I tried the '/usr/sbin/apachectl status' command, I got the
>
>
> And /usr/sbin/apachectl?
>
> Those are not the paths you get from a standard apache install. I don't
> know what you get if you install from RPMs, but I expect redhat's docs
> will tell you.
>
>
>>following error:
>>ERROR at dump.c:188: Connection refused
>
>
> That looks _very_ nonstandard: there's no dump.c in apache.
>