[ale] Resolved: Semi-OT: Baby steps with SSL and GoAhead webserver

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Thu Nov 16 17:03:56 EST 2006


Mark, ALErs -

I had two more steps to make it work:

1. Build the SSL-enabled server to listen only on port 443. <blush>(I must 
   have thought _InterNet_Magic_(TM) somehow took care of that.)</blush>

2. Populate a set of ./cert/*.pem files, where I had only put the server 
   cert.

Now it accepts an SSL connection.

Thanks.

 - Mills

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, John Mills wrote:

> I'm setting up the GoAhead web server ([http://www.goahead.com]) as a test
> (This is only a test!) on my SuSE-10.1 Linux box, and want to use the
> installed 'openssl' for incoming 'https' connections. I had very few
> problems building the package and running it without SSL enabled, and
> similarly an easy time building the server with 'openssl' enabled.

> When I run the [SSL] enabled version I still get the proper 'http'
> behavior, but I cannot connect for 'https' traffic. 'netstat -l' shows
> one port listening for 'web-http' connections, but nothing waiting for
> 'web-https'.
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