Upgrading Squeeze To Wheezy : phpmyadmin = ssl_error_rx_record_too_long

pun_Krawk · 01-21-2014, 12:32 PM

Hi all,

Here is my situation. I have a web app running a Turnkey LAMP (12.1) AMI on Amazon AWS with Debian Squeeze 6.0.7. I would like to upgrade to the latest version of Wheezy (7.3), but I'm running into a problem I can't figure out. I'm not very strong with server administration, so bare with me.

I decided to fire up a default instance and do a clean run-through. I'm following a guide like this. Everything installed with no problems, except for one annoying problem where I had to remove "default-character-set=utf8" from the force_utf.cnf file in order to install mysql-server.

However, now I can't access phpmyadmin at all. When I try to access it, it forces the use of https, and then gives me the following error:

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

Since this is a default installation/upgrade, I'm not sure what I would have done to cause this. Webmin works fine without problems. Everything I've tried from searching online has failed. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Or can suggest a workaround?

The temporary server address is: https://ec2-54-193-76-29.us-west-1.c...aws.com:12322/

Thanks for any assistance!

sag47 · 01-21-2014, 02:22 PM

http://ec2-54-193-76-29.us-west-1.co...22/phpmyadmin/

That's because you're using the HTTPS protocol on a site which is only serving the HTTP protocol.

Code:

^_^[sam@stealth:~]$ openssl s_client -connect ec2-54-193-76-29.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:12322 < /dev/null
CONNECTED(00000003)
140083573110432:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:766:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 321 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---
O_O[sam@stealth:~]$

I wouldn't recommend logging in over plain text... Also, webmin and phpmyadmin are usually the first places of a website to be attacked for vulnerabilities (and usually compromise the server).

pun_Krawk · 01-21-2014, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sag47

http://ec2-54-193-76-29.us-west-1.co...22/phpmyadmin/

That's because you're using the HTTPS protocol on a site which is only serving the HTTP protocol.

Code:

^_^[sam@stealth:~]$ openssl s_client -connect ec2-54-193-76-29.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:12322 < /dev/null
CONNECTED(00000003)
140083573110432:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:766:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 321 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---
O_O[sam@stealth:~]$

I wouldn't recommend logging in over plain text... Also, webmin and phpmyadmin are usually the first places of a website to be attacked for vulnerabilities (and usually compromise the server).

Thank you! You got me going in the right direction. I followed this guide to get it working. That said, I was unaware of how much got wiped out when upgrading to Wheezy. Perhaps I'm not knowledgeable enough to do this yet with the server my web app is running on.