ssl and apache 2 don't work, 403 forbidden error

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

Ok,

The website I'm hosting runs apache2. I have generated the ssl certificates already and put them into /etc/apache2/conf/ssl. I also have the following entries in my apache2.conf file:

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl/server.key

I have also restarted apache2.

I am not doing virtual hosting, because the box hosts one site and will only host one site in the years to come.

Whenever I try to access web-pages on the site using ssl, I always get a message that says "403 Error: This pages is forbidden. You do not have permission to access ...."

Does anyone either

1) What I did wrong in enabling ssl?

2) What more I need to do to view pages while using ssl?

Thanks for any help you can give.
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nobspangle · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

do the same pages still work when using http instead of https

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

yes, regular http still works
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rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

er...I thought regular http worked...I tried restarting apache, and afterwards, regular http just produces blank pages...when I commented out the three SSL lines in my apache2.conf, http worked regularly again.

I still don't know how to get SSL working though, and it is really important to me because I am running squirrelmail and would like to have the session running over https/ssl

Thank yuo for your help.
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rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

Anyone able to answer my question? All the tutorials and forum posts and howto's off of google only deal with virtual hosting, which I am not doing (at least I did not configure it).
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daphil · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 13

I do have exactly the same problem. On my machine, http works fine but https keeps showing this forbidden error.