Jeffrey Burgoyne wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Using Apache 1.3.6, Mod-SSL 2.3.5-1.3.6, OpenSSL 0.9.3a, PHP 3.0.10 all
> > built from source under Linux kernel 2.2.9 (Mandrake 6.0 distro) I can
> > browse through the resulting server using HTTP no problems, but HTTPS
> > yields Netscape (4.61) complaining about not being able to negotiate
> > compatibly,
> Perhaps its negotiating Ciphers. I and several people have had this
> problem and the error message is misleading. In my case the machine name I
> had set up in the conf file was not the machine name, although it was a
> valid DNS entry. On linux I especially noted that simply entering new
> entries in the /etc/host file on a stand alone machine was not good at
> all.
Bingo!
I was set up with domainname yyy.zzz and hostname xxx (and Apache's
ServerName xxx.yyy.zzz) but setting hostname to xxx.yyy.zzz made it all
fly. I used to be paranoid, but now I only worry that I'm not paranoid
enough... (-:
Thanks for the hint.
--
"Oh Bentson, you are so mercifully free from the ravages of intellect."
-- Evil, The Time Bandits
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