Having problem with SSL config in Apache2
 

After trying to install Mandriva 2007 as an upgrade (which screwed up my system), I've gone back and done a clean install of Mandriva 2006.

My problem is with trying to get an SSL connection to my website. I can't get the SSL connection to work on my public internet connection, it will only work as localhost.

I've made sure that mod_ssl is installed and running. When I try to access my website via SSL from my public IP, it get an error message from Firefox that says "www.xxx.com has sent an incorrect or unexpected message. Error code: -12281". I've googled it and all I can find is that it's an Apache config error, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreicated!

Thanks...

And you're not blocking port 443?

No, both ports 80 and 443 are open.

What do you logs tell you? And does this happen with any other browser? Sounds more like a connection/browser type issue rather than an apache issue if it works locally using localhost.

Unfortunately the logs don't show anything at all. Firefox is kind enough to return the error message I posted previously. Internet Explorer's error message is totally worthless.

When I googled the error message from Firefox, the best thing I could find was Apache was trying to process the SSL request through a non-secure port, ie port 80. So I think it's an Apache config issue.

What's listening on your machine? Does it even show port 443 listening? How did you start apache? Did you start it with SSL support? You said it worked locally correct? Did you actually specify https and not http in your address?

netstat -lpn

I got it figured out. I'm running with named virtual hosts, but I needed to set the NameVirtualHost from aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd to aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:80.

This way, the SSL requests will go through the SSL default instead of the named virtual hosts.