Kirrus’ Blog

So, ran into this one. Firefox is throwing this error, along with ‘SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG’. Turns out, apache was serving plain HTTP on port 443, as it hadn’t been given a default SSL config.

Other causes may be: Corrupted SSL cert (rare). Mis-configured proxy. Not adding “SSLEngine On” after configuring an SSL cert. But mostly, you’re trying to talk HTTPS to an HTTP serving webserver.

`a2ensite default-ssl` (on debian) fixed it. Well, fixed in in that the default server now has a snake-oil self-signed cert, but, you know, fixed it.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 15:02 by Kirrus and is filed under Linux, Remember This, Ubuntu-UK Planet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.