SSL doesn't seem to be working...

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Hey all,

So i’m having trouble setting up ssl on a virual host. I have the website “extorio.com” set up as a virtual host, and the “SSL website enabled?” feature is ticked in the enabled feature list, however when I navigate to https://extorio.com, i get the following screen in firefox (and a similar one in chrome):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QnP5_0VHXMR180NzN5OUhLOVE/view?usp=sharing

As you can see on this screen below, the ssl cert has been set up as a self-signed cert (this was done by virtualmin when initially enabling SSL on this virtual host):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QnP5_0VHXMXzJGeXM3QUpvZ28/view?usp=sharing

However, when I run the following code from the command line openssl s_client -connect extorio.com:443 I get the following result:


CONNECTED(00000003)
140084065588896:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:

no peer certificate available

No client certificate CA names sent

SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 295 bytes

New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE

I would really love to be able to use the SSL feature of virtualmin for websites that I am managing through the system, does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing the issue here?

Many thanks in advance.

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So i’m not 100% sure what the issue was, whether it was my wrong-doing or maybe a default-configuration issue with virtualmin, however here’s how I solved the problem:

My virtual hosts are set up to have BIND DNS entries. When initially running the configuration check, webmin warned me that 127.0.0.2 was the detected IPv4 address due to a NAT firewall on my server. I changed the configuration settings to automatically detect the virtual host IP addresses and this appeared to stop the warning on the configuration check and all websites seem to run fine.

When setting up one of the virtual hosts with the SSL feature enabled, I noticed that webmin created two virtual host entries for the website, one for port 80 and one for port 443 (the port used for https). The entry for port 443 showed that the location was 127.0.0.2, while all other entries showed “Any”. This was a clue as to what might have been causing the issue…

So I re-configured the virtualmin settings, manually setting the default IPv4 IP address to the external address of the server, which in-turn updated the vhost entries for all of the websites, fixing the 443 entry showing the location as “Any”, and now the issue is solved!