In general, this is NOT the place to notify Cobalt, but I'm taking the trouble to send a bcc of this post to someone who may be able to help the code into a future upgrade (hence the complete copy).
Jeff Frans ter Borg wrote: > > hiya, > > A client of ours recently pointed out that they had problems enabling SSL > for sites hosted on their server. Generating a self-signed certificate and > enabling ssl for a specific site on that server did indeed not work. Also > the mgmt interface became unavailable at http://server/admin but could > only be accessed via the http://server/.cobalt/sysManage pages. > > It took a while to find out what was going on. > > there is some dynamics in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in which it > parses itsself and verifies the existence of a file relating to ssl for a > certain site. If so, it will generate a VirtualHost section for that site. > These dynamics are between <PERL></PERL> tags. > > The code will work for most people out there, but for this client it did > not. The code mentioned the following: > > s/80/443/go if (/^Rewrite/); > > Sounds like a plan, but if you have an IP address which includes the > number 80, it will become mangled - ex. RIPE has recently started > allocating from 80.0.0.0/8 so addresses from that range will be changed > into 443.0.0.0/8 addresses (which obviously don't exist) > > Changing the above line by > > s/\:80/\:443/go if (/^Rewrite/); > > Will solve the problem, as only the port section of the address lines need > to be changed. > > I suppose it would be good for SUN to patch this as more and more new > servers in Europe will be deployed in the 80.0.0.0/8 IP range and more > people will run into this issue. I'm too new to this forum to know how to > make this known to SUN's people though, so I hope they'll read it here... > > Regards, > > Frans > > -- > Quanza Engineering B.V. Elandsstraat 44 > Frans ter Borg 1016 SG Amsterdam > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.quanza.net > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 US Internet & Unix/Linux/Sun/Cobalt Consulting +1 909 778-9980 Our jblists address used on lists is for list email only To contact us offlist: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
