Comments on: Install and Configure Apache2 with PHP5 and SSL Support in Debian Etch

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:43:12 +0000

The command has to be:

openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem -keyout /etc/apache2/apache.pem

You missed the “ssl” in the first path.

By: matey

matey — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:36:16 +0000

Are you running it as root ?
in the terminal do;
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

By: Yogi

Yogi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:56:50 +0000

Hi,

I followed through your instruction, everything worked fine but when i run this command /etc/apache2/ports.conf it shows -bash : /etc/apache2/ports.conf : permission denied and also for this command too /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.

Please help me i am new to Debian…

Thanks

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:02:14 +0000

to fix ssl_error_rx_record_too_long
I removed all
NameVirtualHost *
from other site definitions,
and addedd :80 or :443 to the virtual host

By: grzech

grzech — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:21:10 +0000

It works, it was easy. Thank you very much.

By: Matey

Matey — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:45:57 +0000

# cartoonist Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 8:37 am

SOLVED! I unistalled all apache and libapr related package (apt-get purge) and then reinstall by:
#apt-get install apache2
Then Everything is OK!!

Hey Thanks for taking the time and posting the Solution!
I wished everyone did that.

By: Matey

Matey — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:04:14 +0000

khairul
That is not really an error.
Your system is working just fine it seems.
If this is supposed to be a part of a web server and/or a domain then that is an error message otherwise if you are on a local network or not a web related server then its OK.(its looking for .com .org etc.)
I am no expert but for what I have seen the web configurations are scattered around but look into the folders called sites-available , sites-enabled etc. under /etc/apache2/…that is a good start

BTW apache2 requires a -k to start I think?!

By: khairul

khairul — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:03:12 +0000

I have followed your instruction but i get some error

#tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Wed Mar 04 02:20:28 2009] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 221.120.101.237 for ServerName
[Wed Mar 04 02:20:28 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Wed Mar 04 02:20:28 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Khairul’ does NOT match server name!?
[Wed Mar 04 02:20:28 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch13 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c configured — resuming normal operations
[Wed Mar 04 02:34:57 2009] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 221.120.101.237 for ServerName
[Wed Mar 04 02:34:57 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Wed Mar 04 02:34:57 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Khairul’ does NOT match server name!?
[Wed Mar 04 02:34:57 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch13 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c configured — resuming normal operations

By: cartoonist

cartoonist — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:37:32 +0000

SOLVED! I unistalled all apache and libapr related package (apt-get purge) and then reinstall by:
#apt-get install apache2
Then Everything is OK!!

By: cartoonist

cartoonist — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:04:59 +0000

I have a problem with Apache 2!!
when i start apache2:
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Starting web server: apache2/usr/sbin/apache2: error while loading shared libraries: libapr-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed!

I’ve installed ‘libapr1′ but no change occures! (excuse me because of my bad english! it’s not my native language!)
help me please!

By: matey

matey — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:35:29 +0000

when I run the apache2 force restart thing mentioned above I get this error:

ERROR: APACHE_PID_FILE needs to be defined in /etc/apache2/envvars

But no matter how I define the PID file I still get more errors about that goofy envvar file?!
I wished some one would have taken the time to put a sample in there like most other conf. files do.

By: douglasmbiandou

douglasmbiandou — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:11:10 +0000

Thank you very much ! It works & helped me a lot.

By: Sameera Gayan

Sameera Gayan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:02:06 +0000

Hi,
I got the same issue.
——————————————————————-
An error occurred during a connection to localhost.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
——————————————————————–
Please help!!!

By: Dre

Dre — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:44:02 +0000

Now I am getting a connection issue when trying to connect via https…

——————————————————————–
An error occurred during a connection to mars-webserver.local.lan.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
——————————————————————–
What can I to correct that ?

tia

By: Adhelle

Adhelle — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:22:46 +0000

hey,
i get an error

Starting web server (apache2)…(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
failed!

help please? thanks ^^

By: David Wales

David Wales — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:38:38 +0000

Nice article thanks for the heads up…..

When generating the SSL cert and asked to input: Common Name
make sure you enter the domain name you wish to use e.g. http://www.mydomain.com

By: Pawel

Pawel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:18:19 +0000

dzi?ki za ten tutorial / thanks for this tutorial

By: laurent

laurent — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:03:20 +0000

Merci beaucoup

Très bon article !

By: toecutter

toecutter — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:12:01 +0000

not working for me. I get the following error;

Starting web server (apache2)…(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
failed!

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:56:30 +0000

hey I am getting this …httpd (no pid file) not running