I am trying to get SSL up and running on my new apache server. The
server starts up just fine and serves up regular pages on port 80, but
when I direct it towards the SSL port, Firefox give me an error:

"bv.<domain>.com has sent an incorrect or unexpected message.
Error Code: -12263"

When I look at the apache error log, I get this:

client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

what is strange is that I am not using /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
anywhere in the httpd.conf file. I have searched and searched the
config file for htdocs and it simply is not there. Any thoughts?

Sam

P.S. Here is my complete httpd.conf file:

ServerRoot /usr/local/apache2
PidFile /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid

Listen 80
ServerAdmin scarleton@<domain>.com
ServerSignature Off
User httpd
Group httpd
HostNameLookups Off
TimeOut 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
ServerTokens ProductOnly

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .inc
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .class
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .module

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mime_module>
TypesConfig conf/mime.types
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
</IfModule>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

<FilesMatch "(^\.ht|~$|\.bak$|\.BAK$)">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

<DirectoryMatch /CVS/>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>

<Directory />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Options None
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /home/www/mainroot>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\"
\"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined

LogLevel info
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/www/mainroot
</VirtualHost>

Listen 443

<IfModule mime.c>
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl
</IfModule>

SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
SSLSessionCache shm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_cache_shm
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 600
SSLMutex file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex
SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 1024
SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 1024

<VirtualHost bv.miltonstreet.com:433>
DocumentRoot "/home/www/subversion"
ServerName bv.<domain>.com
SSLEngine on
#SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:+SHA1:+MD5:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
#SSLCipherSuite
ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSL v2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.key
SSLOptions +StrictRequire
SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +SSLv3
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</VirtualHost>

sam wrote:
> I am trying to get SSL up and running on my new apache server. The
> server starts up just fine and serves up regular pages on port 80, but
> when I direct it towards the SSL port, Firefox give me an error:
>
> "bv.<domain>.com has sent an incorrect or unexpected message.
> Error Code: -12263"
>
> When I look at the apache error log, I get this:
>
> client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
>
> what is strange is that I am not using /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
> anywhere in the httpd.conf file. I have searched and searched the
> config file for htdocs and it simply is not there. Any thoughts?

> Listen 443
>
> <IfModule mime.c>
> AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
> AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl
> </IfModule>
>
> SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
> SSLSessionCache shm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_cache_shm
> SSLSessionCacheTimeout 600
> SSLMutex file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex
> SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 1024
> SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 1024
>
> <VirtualHost bv.miltonstreet.com:433>

This should be port 443 to begin with.

It is possible that running 'apachectl configtest' might have found this.

Jeff Long

sam wrote:
> I am trying to get SSL up and running on my new apache server. The
> server starts up just fine and serves up regular pages on port 80, but
> when I direct it towards the SSL port, Firefox give me an error:
>
> "bv.<domain>.com has sent an incorrect or unexpected message.
> Error Code: -12263"
>
> When I look at the apache error log, I get this:
>
> client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
>
> what is strange is that I am not using /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
> anywhere in the httpd.conf file. I have searched and searched the
> config file for htdocs and it simply is not there. Any thoughts?

> Listen 443
>
> <IfModule mime.c>
> AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
> AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl
> </IfModule>
>
> SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
> SSLSessionCache shm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_cache_shm
> SSLSessionCacheTimeout 600
> SSLMutex file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex
> SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 1024
> SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 1024
>
> <VirtualHost bv.miltonstreet.com:433>

This should be port 443 to begin with.

It is possible that running 'apachectl configtest' might have found this.

Jeff Long