--- Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:10:27AM -0700, Bibhash Roy wrote:
> > I am hosting Apache Web Server on Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL4).
> > The apache rpm is httpd-2.0.52-9.ent
> ...
> > 2.
> > When I add a ssl-enabled virtual-host, I get the following error on restart:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
> > Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
> > Starting httpd: [Wed May 25 14:41:23 2005] [warn] module ssl_module is 
> > already
> loaded,
> > skipping
> > [Wed May 25 14:41:24 2005] [warn] module ssl_module is already loaded, 
> > skipping
> > Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/vh/sslsite1] does not exist
> > Syntax error on line 232 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> > SSLCertificateFile: file '/home/vh/sslsite1/server.crt' does not exist or 
> > is empty
> > [FAILED]
> 
> You can get this type of error if you have SELinux enabled - check 
> /var/log/message to see if there is an "avc" denial message for this 
> file.
> 
> You'll need to label the certificates correctly if you want to keep 
> SELinux enabled, e.g.
> 
>  # chcon user_u:object_r:httpd_config_t /home/vh/sslsite1/server.crt
> 
> See:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/
> 
> for more details about SELinux and Apache.



Thanks joe ...for your tips...
At least I could understand that it was a SELinux issue.

Actually to get things working I had to disable SELinux...

However "chcon user_u:object_r:httpd_config_t /home/vh/sslsite1/server.crt" did 
not work
out with SELinux enabled....


Regards,

Bibhash Roy


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