Seán Hayes » apache http://seanhayes.name Web Developer in Rochester, NY (Django, JavaScript, LAMP) Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:07:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Setting up SSL on Apache http://seanhayes.name/2010/07/02/setting-ssl-apache/ http://seanhayes.name/2010/07/02/setting-ssl-apache/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:21:25 +0000 Seán Hayes http://seanhayes.name/?p=187 Continue reading →]]> While locally testing Darkroom over HTTPS, Firefox gave me the following error: “Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long”. Turns out I’d never configured the Apache instance on my laptop to use SSL.

Once you’ve got the right information it’s really quick to fix. Here’s 2 links that I found helpful:

Generating an SSL Certificate with Apache+mod_ssl
Has the commands you need for generating a self signed certificate.

If while generating the certificate you get the error “unable to write ‘random state’”, you’ll need to chown the .rnd file (sudo chown user:group ~/.rnd) and try again.
I put all the generated files in /etc/apache2/ssl/.

How to get Apache to do both HTTP and HTTPS on one IP address?
Shows the basic Apache configuration needed for HTTPS. To get HTTPS working, I just copied my existing virtual host definition, modified it to use the port 443, and added the SSLEngine, SSLCertificateFile, and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives.

Here’s a copy of my file:

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