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I have what I think is a vanilla Apache configuration file (with
mod_ssl), to which I have added some name-based virtual host
containers.  My global ServerName directive is foo.com.  When I try to
access https://foo.com/, I get a message box from Netscape:

A network error occured while Netscape was receiving data.  (Network
Error: Connection refused)  Try connecting again.

I get no such error with a normal HTTP connection.  Can someone help me?

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Quote:>I have what I think is a vanilla Apache configuration file (with
>mod_ssl), to which I have added some name-based virtual host
>containers.  My global ServerName directive is foo.com.  When I try to
>access https://foo.com/, I get a message box from Netscape:

>A network error occured while Netscape was receiving data.  (Network
>Error: Connection refused)  Try connecting again.

>I get no such error with a normal HTTP connection.  Can someone help me?

Define the <VirtualHost _default_:443> for your HTTPS server, enable listening
on this port with the 'Listen 443' directive, and start apache with 'apachectl
startssl'. Have you done all this?

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Rafael Garcia-Suarez

I have just tried replacing my conf file with the default conf that came
with the distribution, and now I get the same error for both HTTP and
HTTPS.  So it's something else.  (The default does have the VirtualHost
_default_:443 and Listen 443 directives.)

It must have something to do with my DNS and etc... very confusing!

At least I know it's probably not a conf file problem...

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I too had to restore my conf file for my apache server, the default conf
file doesn't have the 'listen' command active, i.e. it is commented out,
that is why now both http pages get the error. The default setting is
security, the web page is noted open for access when you do an install.

Try it with MSIE and see if you get the same error.  Post your findings here.

I get the same error with MSIE, but I having discovered how to check the
Internet socket status, I can definitely see that apache is not
listening to 443.

I start apache with 'startssl'.  That works no prob.

In my conf file, I have

Port 80
<IfDefine SSL>
Listen 80
Listen 443
</IfDefine>

Shouldn't this be enough to get apache listening to 443?  Also, I see no
error messages in the logs; one would think there would be some kind of
message if you 'startssl' and 443 is not listened to?

Thanks for any help...

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No you need

    <VirtualHost _default_:443>
      ...
    </VirtualHost>

as well.  I thought you said you had that.

Are you starting the server with "apachectl startssl"?

Please try httpd -l and make sure the SSL module is even installed.

Dunno what else to tell you; it's kind of hard to diagnose via newsgroup :).