CentOS 5.5 (5.6) SSL Problem
 

I installed a new CentOS 5.5 Server. When I ran yum update, it seems to have updated to CentOS 5.6. It asked for a reboot, so I rebooted the server.

Next I setup some Virtual Hosts (Name-based) exactly the same as my CentOS 5.4 server. When I tried to restart the httpd service, it refuses to start because it seems to want an SSL Certificate.

I didn't install SSL, and I don't WANT SSL, because we use these servers to test web site development internally and on the CentOS 5.4 Server, have have 10 name-based Virtual hosts running and all I want to do is move them to the new server (all Servers run under VMware ESX 4.x)

I don't think I did anything wrong other than to do the updates.

Any ideas on how to fix this and get rid of the SSL?

Hi,

You can uninstall mod_ssl, or just move /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf-BAK, so apache does not read the ssl configuration part. In this case you should also check httpd.conf and comment out every reference to ssl.

Regards

I renamed ssl.conf as you suggested. There were NO references to SSL in httpd.conf. I restart Apache and I get the following messages in the log :-

[Sun Apr 10 15:35:00 2011] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sun Apr 10 15:35:00 2011] [error] Password for slot internal is incorrect.
[Sun Apr 10 15:35:00 2011] [error] NSS initialization failed. Certificate database: /etc/httpd/alias.
[Sun Apr 10 15:35:00 2011] [error] SSL Library Error: -8177 The security password entered is incorrect

I guess you've run into this bug
Solution is in post #15

Regards

No, I fixed it. I renamed nss.conf to nss.conf-BAK as well as now it's working fine.