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Limitng bandwidth in apache for https

Hi to all, I succesfully installed on an apache server running in debian the mod_bw ( http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/http..._bw/mod_bw.txt ) for limiting the bandwidth.
My /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file is:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        

        DocumentRoot /var/www/        

#        BandWidthModule On

#        ForceBandWidthModule On

#        Bandwidth all 0



        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

The normal traffic is throttled as I wanted BUT I'm not able to limit the bandwidth on HTTPS traffic, which is what I want.
Someone coul help me please?
I've tried to play with virtualHost ecc.. but with no success

PS: in the code I've submitted to you the bandidth limiting is disable, I know.

Quote:

Originally Posted by endamaco (Post 4724130)

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        

        DocumentRoot /var/www/        

#        BandWidthModule On

#        ForceBandWidthModule On

#        Bandwidth all 0



</VirtualHost>

The normal traffic is throttled as I wanted BUT I'm not able to limit the bandwidth on HTTPS traffic, which is what I want. Someone coul help me please?
I've tried to play with virtualHost ecc.. but with no success
PS: in the code I've submitted to you the bandidth limiting is disable, I know.

I'm not an expert in this, but from a brief look at some docs, I *THINK* that the lines you've commented above (bolded in this reply), should be just before the </VirtualHost> line. Also, the "Bandwidth all 0"...the 0 should be some number, but you may already have that in your production site, and have it 0 for the example, as you said.

Also...the virtual host you defined is for port 80....https is port 443, so you'd have to define a second virtual host for the https rules to take effect.

Ok thanks.
I've moved theese lines before the virtualHost statement (don't worry about the zero in bandwidth) but still not working for shaping https traffic.
Actually I don't know how to add a virtualhost, should I also change something in /etc/apache2/ports.conf?
I keep getting errors when changing something so for sure I'm doing it wrong

Quote:

Originally Posted by endamaco (Post 4724177)

Ok thanks.
I've moved theese lines before the virtualHost statement (don't worry about the zero in bandwidth) but still not working for shaping https traffic.

Right...because the one virtual host you defined is for STANDARD HTTP...port 80. The very first line of the config you posted:

Quote:

You need to add another whole section for port 443, which is HTTPS, and put the bandwidth limiters in there too. And if you have a zero in there when you uncomment it, things won't work right either.

Quote:

Actually I don't know how to add a virtualhost, should I also change something in /etc/apache2/ports.conf?
I keep getting errors when changing something so for sure I'm doing it wrong

The best examples for this would be on the Apache site:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

I'm not an expert with virtual hosts, so I can't offer much more guidance past that, but I'm sure others here will chime in. Posting the error(s) you get will help us help you, too.

Yes, but if i move the lines you said out from the virtualhost shouldn't them be available for all ports? (80,443 ecc..)

Quote:

Originally Posted by endamaco (Post 4724336)

Yes, but if i move the lines you said out from the virtualhost shouldn't them be available for all ports? (80,443 ecc..)

No. In my initial reply, I said put those lines just BEFORE the </virtualhost> (end of virtual host segment). You define two vhosts..one for port 80, and one for port 443 (http and https).

And again, if you post the error(s) you're getting, we will have more to go on.

With this configuration:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined



    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

    </Directory>

        DocumentRoot /var/www/        

#        BandWidthModule On

#        ForceBandWidthModule On

#        Bandwidth all 0



</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined



    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

    </Directory>

        DocumentRoot /var/www/        

#        BandWidthModule On

#        ForceBandWidthModule On

#        Bandwidth all 0



</VirtualHost>

when I restart Apache I get this:

Quote:

Restarting web server: apache2[Wed Jul 11 10:15:04 2012] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
[Wed Jul 11 10:15:05 2012] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!

Uhm,I've made some changes:

/etc/apache2/ports.conf:

Code:

# If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also

# have to change the VirtualHost statement in

# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

# This is also true if you have upgraded from before 2.2.9-3 (i.e. from

# Debian etch). See /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/NEWS.Debian.gz and

# README.Debian.gz



NameVirtualHost *:80

Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

    # If you add NameVirtualHost *:443 here, you will also have to change

    # the VirtualHost statement in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl

    # to <VirtualHost *:443>

    # Server Name Indication for SSL named virtual hosts is currently not

    # supported by MSIE on Windows XP.

    NameVirtualHost *:443

    Listen 443

</IfModule>



<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>

    Listen 443

</IfModule>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined



    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

    </Directory>

        DocumentRoot /var/www/        

        BandWidthModule On

        ForceBandWidthModule On

        Bandwidth all 7000



</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl

Code:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

<VirtualHost *:443>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



        DocumentRoot /var/www

        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ssl_access.log combined



        #  SSL Engine Switch:

        #  Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.

        SSLEngine on



        #  A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing

        #  the ssl-cert package. See

        #  /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.

        #  If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the

        #  SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.

        SSLCertificateFile    /etc/apache2/ssl/sign.crt

        #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key



        #  Server Certificate Chain:

        #  Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the

        #  concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the

        #  certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively

        #  the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile

        #  when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server

        #  certificate for convinience.

        #SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server-ca.crt



        #  Certificate Authority (CA):

        #  Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA

        #  certificates for client authentication or alternatively one

        #  huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)

        #  Note: Inside SSLCACertificatePath you need hash symlinks

        #        to point to the certificate files. Use the provided

        #        Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.

        #SSLCACertificatePath /etc/ssl/certs/

        #SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt



        #  Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL):

        #  Set the CA revocation path where to find CA CRLs for client

        #  authentication or alternatively one huge file containing all

        #  of them (file must be PEM encoded)

        #  Note: Inside SSLCARevocationPath you need hash symlinks

        #        to point to the certificate files. Use the provided

        #        Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.

        #SSLCARevocationPath /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/

        #SSLCARevocationFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/ca-bundle.crl



        #  Client Authentication (Type):

        #  Client certificate verification type and depth.  Types are

        #  none, optional, require and optional_no_ca.  Depth is a

        #  number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate

        #  issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.

        #SSLVerifyClient require

        #SSLVerifyDepth  10



        #  Access Control:

        #  With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based

        #  on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server

        #  variable checks and other lookup directives.  The syntax is a

        #  mixture between C and Perl.  See the mod_ssl documentation

        #  for more details.

        #<Location />

        #SSLRequire (    %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \

        #            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq "Snake Oil, Ltd." \

        #            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {"Staff", "CA", "Dev"} \

        #            and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \

        #            and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20      ) \

        #          or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192\.76\.162\.[0-9]+$/

        #</Location>



        #  SSL Engine Options:

        #  Set various options for the SSL engine.

        #  o FakeBasicAuth:

        #    Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation.  This means that

        #    the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control.  The

        #    user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate.

        #    Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user

        #    file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'.

        #  o ExportCertData:

        #    This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and

        #    SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the

        #    server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client

        #    authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates

        #    into CGI scripts.

        #  o StdEnvVars:

        #    This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables.

        #    Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,

        #    because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually

        #    useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the

        #    exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.

        #  o StrictRequire:

        #    This denies access when "SSLRequireSSL" or "SSLRequire" applied even

        #    under a "Satisfy any" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied

        #    and no other module can change it.

        #  o OptRenegotiate:

        #    This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL

        #    directives are used in per-directory context.

        #SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire

        <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">

                SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

        </FilesMatch>

        <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>

                SSLOptions +StdEnvVars

        </Directory>



        #  SSL Protocol Adjustments:

        #  The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown

        #  approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for

        #  the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown

        #  approach you can use one of the following variables:

        #  o ssl-unclean-shutdown:

        #    This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no

        #    SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received.  This violates

        #    the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use

        #    this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where

        #    mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.

        #  o ssl-accurate-shutdown:

        #    This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a

        #    SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify

        #    alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in

        #    practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use

        #    this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation

        #    works correctly.

        #  Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP

        #  keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable

        #  keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this.

        #  Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround

        #  their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and

        #  "force-response-1.0" for this.

        BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \

                nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \

                downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

        # MSIE 7 and newer should be able to use keepalive

        BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown

        DocumentRoot /var/www/

        BandWidthModule On

        ForceBandWidthModule On

        Bandwidth all 7000



</VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

Now I get no error when restarting apache, but bandwidth shaping is still no workink in https. Iv'e also tried to copy and paste the content of default-ssl after my default but with no success