Thanks again, Bill,
Thinking through this as I tried Bill Jones' suggestions, it appears
that the PassPhrase with or without a dialog applet is not at fault
here.
The first time this start failure occurred it was immediately after
registering a new user in the ebxmllrr -3.0-beta1 registry using the
web browser interface where the instructions walk you through the
process of importing the key into the browser.
At 10:35 PM -0500 5/15/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Rex Brooks wrote:
I have Apache2 in RHEL4, so I am assuming that the SSL Sections you
refer to are in ssl.conf which is loaded as a DSO.
I understand that httpd must be able to read the crt/pem file.
I did specify a pass phrase when I created the key/crt. However, I
do not get a request asking me to supply the pass phrase when I
enter: service httpd start. I just get the same FAILED notice with
the same error in the error_log.
If it is in fact 'tripping' over the passphrase, and stdin/stdout aren't
providing access to the console from 'service httpd start' in redhat, you
might want to look at the SSLPassphraseDialog applet. One option is to pass
a pipe:/path/to/binary that can invoke a pipe program which queries all of
the passphrases.
I wrote support/win32/wintty.c to create a console window on the fly for
such a dialog, letting the service speak with the user at the console.
Obviously, it's win32 specific. But I can't imagine it would be impossible
to create a similar tty piped window applet on Unix, if someone is up to
the challenge.
There are simpler SSLPassphraseDialog alternatives, see...
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslpassphrasedialog
(I just noticed the pipe:/path/to/pipe is undocumented; whoops!)
Bill
Bill
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