Re: Ready for Prime Time ?

2000-11-02 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
If its absolutely essential that you have a "supported product" then you might want to look at Stronghold from C2Net. This is a packaged product that includes Apache, OpenSSL, and mod_ssl. C2Net provides a "whining rights" service as does Microsoft but with much better response times. C2Net

Re: Ready for Prime Time ?

2000-11-02 Thread James Treworgy
The others have answered one part of your question, but I wanted to mention another very significant part of the whole support issue. What is your experience with paid, supported software from companies like 'the evil empire'? Personally, I have been in many situations where I was ready,

Re: Ready for Prime Time ?

2000-11-02 Thread Owen Boyle
I just have to chip in my tuppence-worth... My (long) experience with Microsoft is that they have three possible answers to your problem: (1) Reboot (2) Re-install the program (3) Re-install Windows If none of these works, you're stuck. We widely use OSS in mission-critical applications

Sharing SSLSessionCache in load balanced environment

2000-11-02 Thread Wohlgemuth, Michael J.
We have a server running mod_ssl that requires client certificates. I would like implement some sort of load balancing for this site. I've done this before for sites without client certificates, but it occurs to me that I will run into problems since the SSLSessionCache will need to be shared

Re: Sharing SSLSessionCache in load balanced environment

2000-11-02 Thread Owen Boyle
"Wohlgemuth, Michael J." wrote: I would like to implement some sort of load balancing for this site. ...the SSLSessionCache will need to be shared somehow across separate physical hosts. This is an interesting question which we have been considering since we are planning to use

Re: Sharing SSLSessionCache in load balanced environment

2000-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Burgoyne
I have not played around with the session cache stuff, but a quick look on my system seems to indicate it is a file. Would it be possible to NSF mount this file among multiple machine making it shared? It would be useful for myself as we are adding a second server to our installation and all our

Re: Ready for Prime Time ?

2000-11-02 Thread Keith Parkansky
Owen Boyle wrote: I just have to chip in my tuppence-worth... My (long) experience with Microsoft is that they have three possible answers to your problem: (1) Reboot (2) Re-install the program (3) Re-install Windows If none of these works, you're stuck. snip At the risk of

Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread Brian Rectanus
I am trying to compile mod_ssl-2.3.11-1.3.6 with apache 1.3.6 and openssh-0.9.6 (tried 0.9.5 as well) and I get the following compile error: "ssl_util_ssl.c", line 145: identifier redeclared: d2i_PrivateKey_bio current : static function(pointer to struct bio_st {pointer to struct

Re: Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread Brian Rectanus
Also, I tried the same compile on Linux with gcc-2.95.2 so that I could test GCC before putting it on the Solaris box and got the same error: ssl_util_ssl.c:145: conflicting types for `d2i_PrivateKey_bio' /usr/src/apache/openssl-0.9.6/include/openssl/x509.h:779: previous declaration of

RE: Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread David Rees
I am trying to compile mod_ssl-2.3.11-1.3.6 with apache 1.3.6 and openssh-0.9.6 (tried 0.9.5 as well) and I get the following compile error: Why are you using such an old version of mod_ssl? Please try the latest combo: apache_1.3.14/mod_ssl-2.7.1/openssl-0.9.6 But if you MUST use

Re: Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread Brian Rectanus
David Rees wrote: I am trying to compile mod_ssl-2.3.11-1.3.6 with apache 1.3.6 and openssh-0.9.6 (tried 0.9.5 as well) and I get the following compile error: Why are you using such an old version of mod_ssl? Please try the latest combo: apache_1.3.14/mod_ssl-2.7.1/openssl-0.9.6

Re: Ready for Prime Time ?

2000-11-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Keith Parkansky wrote: Overall that hasn't been my experience. I'm the last one in the office to say anything good about Microsoft, but their support people were excellent in helping us resolve an issue when we tried to set up a Terminal Server connection to a client over a VPN connection

RE: Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread David Rees
I am trying to compile mod_ssl-2.3.11-1.3.6 with apache 1.3.6 and openssh-0.9.6 (tried 0.9.5 as well) and I get the following compile error: Why are you using such an old version of mod_ssl? Please try the latest combo: apache_1.3.14/mod_ssl-2.7.1/openssl-0.9.6

Re: Connection to mod_ssl 2.7.1 blocked on WinNT

2000-11-02 Thread Bruce Kaufman
I've seen this behavior too. Do you have a pass phrase enabled on the key? I did and when I stripped the pass phrase out of the key, I was able to get the server started OK. Haven't figure out much more yet. Hope that helps, Bruce "Andrew C. Wong" wrote: Hi, I just have the latest and

RE: Connection to mod_ssl 2.7.1 blocked on WinNT

2000-11-02 Thread David Rees
Wasn't there some bugs related to the NT version in the latest release? You might want to try the last CVS snapshot. -Dave I've seen this behavior too. Do you have a pass phrase enabled on the key? I did and when I stripped the pass phrase out of the key, I was able to get the server

Re: Compilation Problems on Solaris 2.6

2000-11-02 Thread Brian Rectanus
David Rees wrote: I am trying to compile mod_ssl-2.3.11-1.3.6 with apache 1.3.6 and openssh-0.9.6 (tried 0.9.5 as well) and I get the following compile error: Why are you using such an old version of mod_ssl? Please try the latest combo:

RE: Connection to mod_ssl 2.7.1 blocked on WinNT

2000-11-02 Thread Kirk Benson
This may be the same problem for which I submitted a fix several months ago. Since the problem was in the Apache code and not mod_ssl, Ralf can't fix it in mod_ssl releases. You can check the list archive for the fix, which has two parts: a) don't prompt for the passphrase in the parent process

Re: Connection to mod_ssl 2.7.1 blocked on WinNT

2000-11-02 Thread Andrew C. Wong
Yes, you were right. I found this out when I was examining the log this morning. I put a fix so that the pass phase will be asked only once and get passed to the child. I am also interested in your fix, but searched the archieve without success. Can you point me to it directly? Thanks! Andrew

FW: password - ask_twice - proposed bugfix

2000-11-02 Thread Kirk Benson
Here is a report of my bugfix for NT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kirk Benson Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: password - ask_twice - proposed bugfix This posting concerns only

Virtual Hosting weirdness

2000-11-02 Thread Clint Gilders
Hi All Newbie Alert!! Ok... I looked through the archives and found some info on setting up ssl and non ssl virtual domains: This is what I found: NameVirtualHost 192.168.200.1:80 VirtualHost 192.168.200.1:80 ServerName banana.fruit.com DocumentRoot /home/banana /VirtualHost

Re: Virtual Hosting weirdness

2000-11-02 Thread John Helmuth
At 06:37 PM 11/2/00 -0500, Clint Gilders wrote: Hi All Newbie Alert!! Ok... I looked through the archives and found some info on setting up ssl and non ssl virtual domains: CLIP I have set 3 virtual hosts up in a fashion mimicking the above. I have "www.perlnerd.com" and

RE: Virtual Hosting weirdness

2000-11-02 Thread David Rees
Newbie Alert!! Ah, then you should refer to: http://www.modssl.org/docs/ in particular the FAQ. :-) Ok... I looked through the archives and found some info on setting up ssl and non ssl virtual domains: snip It is working as it should, take a look a the FAQ and you will see why. -Dave

How to get the value of SSL_* env vars?

2000-11-02 Thread Muwon Lum
I use mod_ssl 2.7.1 for Apache 1.3.14 on Solaris 2.6. I'm writing an authentication module that needs to get the DN from user's certificate when the user is trying to access a resource within the DocumentRoot. In httpd.conf, I specify something like this: ... Directory

Re: Virtual Hosting weirdness

2000-11-02 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Clint Gilders wrote: Ok... I looked through the archives and found some info on setting up ssl and non ssl virtual domains: This is what I found: NameVirtualHost 192.168.200.1:80 VirtualHost 192.168.200.1:80 ServerName banana.fruit.com DocumentRoot

Re: How to get the value of SSL_* env vars?

2000-11-02 Thread Bill Doster
At 09:45 PM 11/2/2000 , Muwon Lum wrote: I use mod_ssl 2.7.1 for Apache 1.3.14 on Solaris 2.6. I'm writing an authentication module that needs to get the DN from user's certificate when the user is trying to access a resource within the DocumentRoot. In my authentication module, I try to access

Re: Virtual Hosting weirdness

2000-11-02 Thread Balzs Nagy
Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: I have set 3 virtual hosts up in a fashion mimicking the above. I have "www.perlnerd.com" and "www.dbgrafx.com" set up as non ssl virtual domains and "shop.perlnerd.com" set up as my ssl vitual domain. One thing I find strange is that the URL

Re: Sharing SSLSessionCache in load balanced environment

2000-11-02 Thread Balzs Nagy
Jeffrey Burgoyne wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Owen Boyle wrote: "Wohlgemuth, Michael J." wrote: I would like to implement some sort of load balancing for this site. ...the SSLSessionCache will need to be shared somehow across separate physical hosts. the current proven approach is not