refusing to connect to http://localhost!

[dijit]

Hi,

For the past week I have been trying to configure apache with SSL,

anyway,

I can't even get it to connect to http://localhost anymore!

I can't see why

All I have done is add the following to the httpd.conf file:

Listen 443

<VirtualHost https://jj.mandrake:443>
#ServerName jj.mandrake
ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/error_log
TransferLog /etc/httpd/logs/acces_log
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /conf/ssl.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /conf/ssl.key
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLCACertificateFile /conf/ssl.crt
</VirtualHost>

I am getting the error when restarting httpd "port must be numeric"
it is numeric isn't it ?!

:confused: can anyone help?

[mrBen]

What about http://localhost:443

And try http://127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.1:443 while you're at it ;)

[dijit]

they are all refused!

[chrism01]

neither of my books have https or http in the <VirtualHost ...> directive. I think it deduces the port as the first thing after a ':' so directive should be:
<VirtualHost <ip or name>:port>

[bwkaz]

Yeah, chrism01's answer makes sense to me.

Another way of saying the same thing is, Apache thinks (since it sees a colon after the http) that your port is "//jj.mandrake:443" instead of "443". It thinks your hostname is "http".

[dijit]

yes, you're right

it goes past that now

I am now left with this error:

Syntax error on line 180 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

If I comment this out, it goes to the next line and gives the same error:

Syntax error on line 180 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLCertificatePath', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Syntax error on line 181 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'SSLCertificateFile', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Do you know why this is ?

I was thinking...

because I installed apache, ssl, php etc by doing an upgrade to mandrake, from the disks,

it installed each of them fine, but not togethor ?
this is the impression i get from searching on google

however, nothing concrete, and certainly i cant find anything on how i can change this

any ideas?

edit:

if i type httpd -l

it returns

Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
suexec: enabled; valid wrapper /usr/sbin/suexec

(though i am not sure if this is good or not :) )

[bwkaz]

Somewhere higher up in the config file, there's a list of modules that the server should load. Add mod_ssl.o (or whatever the name of it is) to this list; that should define the SSL* directives.

[dijit]

yep thats already in there

as

<IfDefine HAVE_SSL>
AddModule mod_ssl.c
</IfDefine>
:confused:

[bwkaz]

But ... is HAVE_SSL defined if the module isn't loaded?

I'd bet not... What happens if you get rid of the IfDefined directives, and just leave the AddModule mod_ssl.c?

Or perhaps the problem is that the module is there, but Apache itself doesn't realize it (and therefore doesn't set HAVE_SSL)? You installed Apache from RPMs, though, so you have no idea how it was configured...