Hello Balaji!

Thanks for your comments!
The SSLPassPhraseDialog is present in my config.
I've followed the steps in your article and still get the same errors as
above. I don't think that your steps are much different than those
specified on CentOs HowTo and httpd docs pages (except that there is a
shorter way to generate a passwordless certificate and a key: openssl req
-new -x509 -nodes -out server.crt -keyout server.key -days 365. I've also
tried to use the password protected key. The httpd asks for it on startup
as expected and fails with the same error afterwards :(
I also didn't get the point of copying the server.crt and server.key to the
ssl.crt and ssl.key and not referencing the new files from the config. Do I
miss something here?


Thanks again!
Sergey


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Balaji Katika <balaji.kat...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> HI Sergey,
>
> The issue seems to be with the certificate you've generated. Looks like
> you've forgotten/skipped some steps.
> I think you've specified some passphrase for the certificate and apache is
> unable to locate that. Passphrase could be specified through
> SSLPassPhraseDialog which is missing in your configuration file.
>
> Alternately, you could avoid this passphrase by stripping it from the
> certificate while generating certificate.
> I had succesfully generated a self signed certificate by following steps
> at http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html
>
>
> I would suggest to regenerate a new certificate using the instructions
> mentioned at the above link and test it again....
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Sergey Shcherbakov <
> sergey.shcherba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello all,
>>
>> I cannot start the httpd 2.4.9 (tried 2.4.x too) on CentOS 6.5 with the
>> simplest SSL config possible. The openssl version installed on the machine
>> is OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 (I've upgraded it using 'yum update'
>> to the latest patched version as well)
>>
>> I have compiled and installed the httpd 2.4.9 using the following
>> commands:
>>
>> ./configure --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl/ --enable-proxy=shared 
>> --enable-proxy_wstunnel=shared --with-apr=apr-1.5.1/ 
>> --with-apr-util=apr-util-1.5.3/
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> Now I'm generating the default self-signed certificate as described in
>> the CentOS HowTo:
>>
>> openssl genrsa -out ca.key 2048
>> openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
>> openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -signkey ca.key -out ca.crt
>> cp ca.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs
>> cp ca.key /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
>> cp ca.csr /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.csr
>>
>> Here is my httpd-ssl.conf file:
>>
>> Listen 443
>> SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5
>> SSLPassPhraseDialog  builtin
>> SSLSessionCache        "shmcb:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
>> SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300
>> <VirtualHost *:443>
>>     SSLEngine on
>>     SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
>>     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
>>     <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
>>         SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
>>     </FilesMatch>
>>     <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin">
>>     SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
>> </Directory>
>> BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-5]" \
>>          nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
>>          downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
>> CustomLog "/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log" \
>>           "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> when I start httpd using bin/apachectl -k start I get following errors
>> in the error_log:
>>
>> Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.995654 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24021:tid 139640404293376] 
>> AH01887: Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.995726 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24021:tid 139640404293376] 
>> AH01914: Configuring server 192.168.9.128:443 for SSL protocol
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.995863 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] ssl_engine_init.c(312): AH01893: Configuring TLS extension 
>> handling
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996111 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] ssl_util_ssl.c(343): AH02412: [192.168.9.128:443] Cert 
>> matches for name '192.168.9.128' [subject: 
>> CN=192.168.9.128,OU=XXX,O=XXXX,L=XXXX,ST=NRW,C=DE / issuer: 
>> CN=192.168.9.128,OU=XXX,O=XXXX,L=XXXX,ST=NRW,C=DE / serial: AF04AF31799B7695 
>> / notbefore: Jun  3 22:26:45 2014 GMT / notafter: Jun  3 22:26:45 2015 GMT]
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996122 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24021:tid 139640404293376] 
>> AH02568: Certificate and private key 192.168.9.128:443:0 configured from 
>> /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt and /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996209 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24021:tid 139640404293376] 
>> AH01914: Configuring server 192.168.9.128:443 for SSL protocol
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996280 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] ssl_engine_init.c(312): AH01893: Configuring TLS extension 
>> handling
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996295 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] AH02572: Failed to configure at least one certificate and 
>> key for 192.168.9.128:443
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996303 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] SSL Library Error: error:0906D06C:PEM 
>> routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line (Expecting: DH PARAMETERS) -- Bad file 
>> contents or format - or even just a forgotten SSLCertificateKeyFile?
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996308 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] SSL Library Error: error:0906D06C:PEM 
>> routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line (Expecting: EC PARAMETERS) -- Bad file 
>> contents or format - or even just a forgotten SSLCertificateKeyFile?
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996318 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] SSL Library Error: error:140A80B1:SSL 
>> routines:SSL_CTX_check_private_key:no certificate assigned
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:29:27.996321 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24021:tid 
>> 139640404293376] AH02312: Fatal error initialising mod_ssl, exiting.
>> AH00016: Configuration Failed
>>
>> I then try to generate missing DH PARAMETERS and EC PARAMETERS:
>>
>> openssl dhparam -outform PEM -out dhparam.pem 2048
>> openssl ecparam -out ec_param.pem -name prime256v1
>> cat dhparam.pem ec_param.pem >> /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
>>
>> And it mitigates the error but the next comes out:
>>
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.021438 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24089:tid 140719371077376] 
>> AH01887: Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.021487 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24089:tid 140719371077376] 
>> AH01914: Configuring server 192.168.9.128:443 for SSL protocol
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.021874 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] ssl_engine_init.c(312): AH01893: Configuring TLS extension 
>> handling
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022050 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] ssl_util_ssl.c(343): AH02412: [192.168.9.128:443] Cert 
>> matches for name '192.168.9.128' [subject: 
>> CN=192.168.9.128,OU=XXX,O=XXXX,L=XXXX,ST=NRW,C=DE / issuer: 
>> CN=192.168.9.128,OU=XXX,O=XXXX,L=XXXX,ST=NRW,C=DE / serial: AF04AF31799B7695 
>> / notbefore: Jun  3 22:26:45 2014 GMT / notafter: Jun  3 22:26:45 2015 GMT]
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022066 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24089:tid 140719371077376] 
>> AH02568: Certificate and private key 192.168.9.128:443:0 configured from 
>> /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt and /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022285 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] ssl_engine_init.c(1016): AH02540: Custom DH parameters 
>> (2048 bits) for 192.168.9.128:443 loaded from /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022389 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] ssl_engine_init.c(1030): AH02541: ECDH curve prime256v1 for 
>> 192.168.9.128:443 specified in /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022397 2014] [ssl:info] [pid 24089:tid 140719371077376] 
>> AH01914: Configuring server 192.168.9.128:443 for SSL protocol
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022464 2014] [ssl:debug] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] ssl_engine_init.c(312): AH01893: Configuring TLS extension 
>> handling
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022478 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] AH02572: Failed to configure at least one certificate and 
>> key for 192.168.9.128:443
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022488 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] SSL Library Error: error:140A80B1:SSL 
>> routines:SSL_CTX_check_private_key:no certificate assigned
>> [Wed Jun 04 00:34:05.022491 2014] [ssl:emerg] [pid 24089:tid 
>> 140719371077376] AH02312: Fatal error initialising mod_ssl, exiting.
>>
>> AH00016: Configuration Failed
>>
>> I have tried to generate the simple certificate/key pair exactly as
>> described in the httpd docs
>> <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ssl/ssl_faq.html#selfcert>
>>
>> Unfortunately, I still get exact same errors as above.
>>
>> I've seen a bug report with the similar issue:
>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56410
>>
>> But the openssl version I have is reported as working there. I've also
>> tried to apply the patch from the report as well as build the latest 2.4.x
>> branch with no success, I get the same errors as above.
>>
>> I have also tried to create a short chain of certificates and set the
>> root CA certificate using SSLCertificateChainFile directive. That didn't
>> help either, I get exact same errors as above.
>>
>> I'm not interested in setting up hardened security, etc. The only thing I
>> need is to start httpd with the simplest SSL config possible to continue
>> testing proxy config for the mod_proxy_wstunnel
>>
>> Had anybody encountered and solved this issue?
>>
>> Is my sequence for creating a self-signed certificate incorrect?
>>
>> I'd appreciate any help very much!
>>
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>
>

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