SSL - HTTPS on port 80 instead of 443 - help!

I finally got the SSL certificate working properly thanks to the tutorials and this forum but I can't figure out why it is using port 80.

My ssl.conf file is listening for 443 and my vhosts file has the website set to *:443.

So everything indicates is that it should be using the proper port but PHP ($_SERVER) and even the .htaccess files say that I'm on 80.

Any thoughts?

Also, I am running the LAMP stack on a Fedora Linode.

4 Replies

Can you post your apache configuration?

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#

This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the

configuration directives that give the server its instructions.

See for detailed information.

In particular, see

# for a discussion of each configuration directive.

#
#

Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding

what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure

consult the online docs. You have been warned.

#

The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections:

1. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a

whole (the 'global environment').

2. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server,

which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host.

These directives also provide default values for the settings

of all virtual hosts.

3. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to

different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the

same Apache server process.

#

Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many

of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the

server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do not begin

with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "logs/foo.log"

with ServerRoot set to "/etc/httpd" will be interpreted by the

server as "/etc/httpd/logs/foo.log".

#

Section 1: Global Environment

#

The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache,

such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it

can find its configuration files.

#

#

Don't give away too much information about all the subcomponents

we are running. Comment out this line if you don't mind remote sites

finding out what major optional modules you are running

ServerTokens OS

#

ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's

configuration, error, and log files are kept.

#

NOTE! If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network)

mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation

(available at );

you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

#

Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.

#
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"

#

PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process

identification number when it starts.

#
PidFile run/httpd.pid

#

Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.

#
Timeout 120

#

KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than

one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.

#
KeepAlive Off

#

MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow

during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.

We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.

#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#

KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the

same client on the same connection.

#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

#

Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)

prefork MPM

StartServers: number of server processes to start

MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare

MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare

ServerLimit: maximum value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the server

MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start

MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves

StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000

worker MPM

StartServers: initial number of server processes to start

MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections

MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare

MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare

ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process

MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves

StartServers 2 MaxClients 150 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 0

#

Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or

ports, in addition to the default. See also the # directive.

#

Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to

prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)

#

Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 80

#

Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support

#

To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you

have to place corresponding `LoadModule' lines at this location so the

directives contained in it are actually available before they are used.

Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l') do not need

to be loaded here.

#

Example:

LoadModule foomodule modules/modfoo.so

#
LoadModule authbasicmodule modules/modauthbasic.so
LoadModule authdigestmodule modules/modauthdigest.so
LoadModule authnfilemodule modules/modauthnfile.so
LoadModule authnaliasmodule modules/modauthnalias.so
LoadModule authnanonmodule modules/modauthnanon.so
LoadModule authndbmmodule modules/modauthndbm.so
LoadModule authndefaultmodule modules/modauthndefault.so
LoadModule authzhostmodule modules/modauthzhost.so
LoadModule authzusermodule modules/modauthzuser.so
LoadModule authzownermodule modules/modauthzowner.so
LoadModule authzgroupfilemodule modules/modauthzgroupfile.so
LoadModule authzdbmmodule modules/modauthzdbm.so
LoadModule authzdefaultmodule modules/modauthzdefault.so
LoadModule ldapmodule modules/modldap.so
LoadModule authnzldapmodule modules/modauthnzldap.so
LoadModule includemodule modules/modinclude.so
LoadModule logconfigmodule modules/modlogconfig.so
LoadModule logiomodule modules/modlogio.so
LoadModule envmodule modules/modenv.so
LoadModule extfiltermodule modules/modextfilter.so
LoadModule mimemagicmodule modules/modmimemagic.so
LoadModule expiresmodule modules/modexpires.so
LoadModule deflatemodule modules/moddeflate.so
LoadModule headersmodule modules/modheaders.so
LoadModule usertrackmodule modules/modusertrack.so
LoadModule setenvifmodule modules/modsetenvif.so
LoadModule mimemodule modules/modmime.so
LoadModule davmodule modules/moddav.so
LoadModule statusmodule modules/modstatus.so
LoadModule autoindexmodule modules/modautoindex.so
LoadModule infomodule modules/modinfo.so
LoadModule davfsmodule modules/moddavfs.so
LoadModule vhostaliasmodule modules/modvhostalias.so
LoadModule negotiationmodule modules/modnegotiation.so
LoadModule dirmodule modules/moddir.so
LoadModule actionsmodule modules/modactions.so
LoadModule spelingmodule modules/modspeling.so
LoadModule userdirmodule modules/moduserdir.so
LoadModule aliasmodule modules/modalias.so
LoadModule rewritemodule modules/modrewrite.so
LoadModule proxymodule modules/modproxy.so
LoadModule proxybalancermodule modules/modproxybalancer.so
LoadModule proxyftpmodule modules/modproxyftp.so
LoadModule proxyhttpmodule modules/modproxyhttp.so
LoadModule proxyconnectmodule modules/modproxyconnect.so
LoadModule cachemodule modules/modcache.so
LoadModule suexecmodule modules/modsuexec.so
LoadModule diskcachemodule modules/moddiskcache.so
LoadModule cgimodule modules/modcgi.so

#

The following modules are not loaded by default:

#

LoadModule cernmetamodule modules/modcernmeta.so

LoadModule asismodule modules/modasis.so

#

Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".

#
Include conf.d/*.conf

#

ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status

information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus

Off) when the "server-status" handler is called. The default is Off.

#

ExtendedStatus On

#

If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run

httpd as root initially and it will switch.

#

User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.

. On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup".

. On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the

suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user.

NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET)

when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 60000;

don't use Group #-1 on these systems!

#
User apache
Group apache

Section 2: 'Main' server configuration

#

The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'

server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a

definition. These values also provide defaults for

any containers you may define later in the file.

#

All of these directives may appear inside containers,

in which case these default settings will be overridden for the

virtual host being defined.

#

#

ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be

e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such

as error documents. e.g. admin@your-domain.com

#
ServerAdmin root@localhost

#

ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.

This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify

it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.

#

If this is not set to valid DNS name for your host, server-generated

redirections will not work. See also the UseCanonicalName directive.

#

If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.

You will have to access it by its address anyway, and this will make

redirections work in a sensible way.

#

ServerName www.example.com:80

#

UseCanonicalName: Determines how Apache constructs self-referencing

URLs and the SERVERNAME and SERVERPORT variables.

When set "Off", Apache will use the Hostname and Port supplied

by the client. When set "On", Apache will use the value of the

ServerName directive.

#
UseCanonicalName Off

#

DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

#
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

#

Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect

to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that

directory (and its subdirectories).

#

First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of

features.

#
Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All

#

Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow

particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as

you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it

below.

#

#

This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

#
#

Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",

or any combination of:

Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

#

Note that "MultiViews" must be named explicitly --- "Options All"

doesn't give it to you.

#

The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options

for more information.

#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

#

AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

#
AllowOverride None

#

Controls who can get stuff from this server.

#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

#

UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home

directory if a ~user request is received.

#

The path to the end user account 'public_html' directory must be

accessible to the webserver userid. This usually means that ~userid

must have permissions of 711, ~userid/public_html must have permissions

of 755, and documents contained therein must be world-readable.

Otherwise, the client will only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.

#

See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden

#
#
# UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
# of a username on the system (depending on home directory
# permissions).
#
UserDir disabled

#
# To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
# directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment
# the following line instead:
# 
#UserDir public_html</ifmodule> 

#

Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example

for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.

#

# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec

# Order allow,deny

Allow from all

# Order deny,allow

Deny from all

#

DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory

is requested.

#

The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content-

negotiated documents. The MultiViews Option can be used for the

same purpose, but it is much slower.

#
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

#

AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory

for additional configuration directives. See also the AllowOverride

directive.

#
AccessFileName .htaccess

#

The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being

viewed by Web clients.

#
Order allow,deny Deny from all

#

TypesConfig describes where the mime.types file (or equivalent) is

to be found.

#
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types

#

DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document

if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.

If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is

a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications

or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to

keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are

text.

#
DefaultType text/plain

#

The modmimemagic module allows the server to use various hints from the

contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile

directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.

#
# MIMEMagicFile /usr/share/magic.mime MIMEMagicFile conf/magic

#

HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses

e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).

The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people

had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that

each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the

nameserver.

#
HostnameLookups Off

#

EnableMMAP: Control whether memory-mapping is used to deliver

files (assuming that the underlying OS supports it).

The default is on; turn this off if you serve from NFS-mounted

filesystems. On some systems, turning it off (regardless of

filesystem) can improve performance; for details, please see

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#enablemmap

#

EnableMMAP off

#

EnableSendfile: Control whether the sendfile kernel support is

used to deliver files (assuming that the OS supports it).

The default is on; turn this off if you serve from NFS-mounted

filesystems. Please see

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#enablesendfile

#

EnableSendfile off

#

ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.

If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a # container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be

logged here. If you do define an error logfile for a # container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.

#
ErrorLog logs/error_log

#

LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.

Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

alert, emerg.

#
LogLevel warn

#

The following directives define some format nicknames for use with

a CustomLog directive (see below).

#
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

"combinedio" includes actual counts of actual bytes received (%I) and sent (%O); this

requires the mod_logio module to be loaded.

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio

#

The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).

If you do not define any access logfiles within a # container, they will be logged here. Contrariwise, if you do

define per- access logfiles, transactions will be

logged therein and not in this file.

#

CustomLog logs/access_log common

#

If you would like to have separate agent and referer logfiles, uncomment

the following directives.

#

CustomLog logs/referer_log referer

CustomLog logs/agent_log agent

#

For a single logfile with access, agent, and referer information

(Combined Logfile Format), use the following directive:

#
CustomLog logs/access_log combined

#

Optionally add a line containing the server version and virtual host

name to server-generated pages (internal error documents, FTP directory

listings, modstatus and modinfo output etc., but not CGI generated

documents or custom error documents).

Set to "EMail" to also include a mailto: link to the ServerAdmin.

Set to one of: On | Off | EMail

#
ServerSignature On

#

Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is

Alias fakename realname

#

Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will

require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in this

example, only "/icons/". If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the

realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the

trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.

#

We include the /icons/ alias for FancyIndexed directory listings. If you

do not use FancyIndexing, you may comment this out.

#
Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all

Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all

#

WebDAV module configuration section.

# Location of the WebDAV lock database. DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb

#

ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.

ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that

documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and

run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.

The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to

Alias.

#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

#

"/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased

CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.

#
AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all

#

Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in

your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the

clients where to look for the relocated document.

Example:

Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar

#

Directives controlling the display of server-generated directory listings.

#

#

IndexOptions: Controls the appearance of server-generated directory

listings.

#
IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8

#

AddIcon* directives tell the server which icon to show for different

files or filename extensions. These are only displayed for

FancyIndexed directories.

#
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

#

DefaultIcon is which icon to show for files which do not have an icon

explicitly set.

#
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

#

AddDescription allows you to place a short description after a file in

server-generated indexes. These are only displayed for FancyIndexed

directories.

Format: AddDescription "description" filename

#

AddDescription "GZIP compressed document" .gz

AddDescription "tar archive" .tar

AddDescription "GZIP compressed tar archive" .tgz

#

ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by

default, and append to directory listings.

#

HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to

directory indexes.

ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName HEADER.html

#

IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore

and not include in the listing. Shell-style wildcarding is permitted.

#
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

#

DefaultLanguage and AddLanguage allows you to specify the language of

a document. You can then use content negotiation to give a browser a

file in a language the user can understand.

#

Specify a default language. This means that all data

going out without a specific language tag (see below) will

be marked with this one. You probably do NOT want to set

this unless you are sure it is correct for all cases.

#

* It is generally better to not mark a page as

* being a certain language than marking it with the wrong

* language!

#

DefaultLanguage nl

#

Note 1: The suffix does not have to be the same as the language

keyword --- those with documents in Polish (whose net-standard

language code is pl) may wish to use "AddLanguage pl .po" to

avoid the ambiguity with the common suffix for perl scripts.

#

Note 2: The example entries below illustrate that in some cases

the two character 'Language' abbreviation is not identical to

the two character 'Country' code for its country,

E.g. 'Danmark/dk' versus 'Danish/da'.

#

Note 3: In the case of 'ltz' we violate the RFC by using a three char

specifier. There is 'work in progress' to fix this and get

the reference data for rfc1766 cleaned up.

#

Catalan (ca) - Croatian (hr) - Czech (cs) - Danish (da) - Dutch (nl)

English (en) - Esperanto (eo) - Estonian (et) - French (fr) - German (de)

Greek-Modern (el) - Hebrew (he) - Italian (it) - Japanese (ja)

Korean (ko) - Luxembourgeois* (ltz) - Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)

Norwegian (no) - Polish (pl) - Portugese (pt)

Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) - Russian (ru) - Swedish (sv)

Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) - Spanish (es) - Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)

#
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw

#

LanguagePriority allows you to give precedence to some languages

in case of a tie during content negotiation.

#

Just list the languages in decreasing order of preference. We have

more or less alphabetized them here. You probably want to change this.

#
LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW

#

ForceLanguagePriority allows you to serve a result page rather than

MULTIPLE CHOICES (Prefer) [in case of a tie] or NOT ACCEPTABLE (Fallback)

[in case no accepted languages matched the available variants]

#
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

#

Specify a default charset for all content served; this enables

interpretation of all content as UTF-8 by default. To use the

default browser choice (ISO-8859-1), or to allow the META tags

in HTML content to override this choice, comment out this

directive:

#
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

#

AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration

file mime.types for specific file types.

#

AddType application/x-tar .tgz

#

AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress

information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.

Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have nothing

to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.

#

AddEncoding x-compress .Z

AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz

If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you

probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:

#
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

#

MIME-types for downloading Certificates and CRLs

#
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl

#

AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers":

actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server

or added with the Action directive (see below)

#

To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:

(You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.)

#

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

#

For files that include their own HTTP headers:

#

AddHandler send-as-is asis

#

For type maps (negotiated resources):

(This is enabled by default to allow the Apache "It Worked" page

to be distributed in multiple languages.)

#
AddHandler type-map var

#

Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client.

#

To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI):

(You will also need to add "Includes" to the "Options" directive.)

#
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

#

Action lets you define media types that will execute a script whenever

a matching file is called. This eliminates the need for repeated URL

pathnames for oft-used CGI file processors.

Format: Action media/type /cgi-script/location

Format: Action handler-name /cgi-script/location

#

#

Customizable error responses come in three flavors:

1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects

#

Some examples:

ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"

ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html

#

#

Putting this all together, we can internationalize error responses.

#

We use Alias to redirect any /error/HTTP_.html.var response to

our collection of by-error message multi-language collections. We use

includes to substitute the appropriate text.

#

You can modify the messages' appearance without changing any of the

default HTTP_.html.var files by adding the line:

#

Alias /error/include/ "/your/include/path/"

#

which allows you to create your own set of files by starting with the

/var/www/error/include/ files and

copying them to /your/include/path/, even on a per-VirtualHost basis.

#

Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"

AllowOverride None Options IncludesNoExec AddOutputFilter Includes html AddHandler type-map var Order allow,deny Allow from all LanguagePriority en es de fr ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

ErrorDocument 400 /error/HTTPBADREQUEST.html.var

ErrorDocument 401 /error/HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.html.var

ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_FORBIDDEN.html.var

ErrorDocument 404 /error/HTTPNOTFOUND.html.var

ErrorDocument 405 /error/HTTPMETHODNOT_ALLOWED.html.var

ErrorDocument 408 /error/HTTPREQUESTTIME_OUT.html.var

ErrorDocument 410 /error/HTTP_GONE.html.var

ErrorDocument 411 /error/HTTPLENGTHREQUIRED.html.var

ErrorDocument 412 /error/HTTPPRECONDITIONFAILED.html.var

ErrorDocument 413 /error/HTTPREQUESTENTITYTOOLARGE.html.var

ErrorDocument 414 /error/HTTPREQUESTURITOOLARGE.html.var

ErrorDocument 415 /error/HTTPUNSUPPORTEDMEDIA_TYPE.html.var

ErrorDocument 500 /error/HTTPINTERNALSERVER_ERROR.html.var

ErrorDocument 501 /error/HTTPNOTIMPLEMENTED.html.var

ErrorDocument 502 /error/HTTPBADGATEWAY.html.var

ErrorDocument 503 /error/HTTPSERVICEUNAVAILABLE.html.var

ErrorDocument 506 /error/HTTPVARIANTALSO_VARIES.html.var

#

The following directives modify normal HTTP response behavior to

handle known problems with browser implementations.

#
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1.0" force-response-1.0

#

The following directive disables redirects on non-GET requests for

a directory that does not include the trailing slash. This fixes a

problem with Microsoft WebFolders which does not appropriately handle

redirects for folders with DAV methods.

Same deal with Apple's DAV filesystem and Gnome VFS support for DAV.

#
BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully

#

Allow server status reports generated by mod_status,

with the URL of http://servername/server-status

Change the ".example.com" to match your domain to enable.

#

# SetHandler server-status

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from .example.com

#

Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of

http://servername/server-info (requires that mod_info.c be loaded).

Change the ".example.com" to match your domain to enable.

#

# SetHandler server-info

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from .example.com

#

Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following lines to

enable the proxy server:

#

#ProxyRequests On

#

# Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from .example.com

#

Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.

("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers)

Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block

#

ProxyVia On

#

To enable a cache of proxied content, uncomment the following lines.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_cache.html for more details.

#

# CacheEnable disk /

CacheRoot "/var/cache/mod_proxy"

#

End of proxy directives.

Section 3: Virtual Hosts

#

VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your

machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations

use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about

IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.

#

Please see the documentation at

# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.

#

You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host

configuration.

#

Use name-based virtual hosting.

#

NameVirtualHost *:80

#

NOTE: NameVirtualHost cannot be used without a port specifier

(e.g. :80) if mod_ssl is being used, due to the nature of the

SSL protocol.

#

#

VirtualHost example:

Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.

The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known

server name.

#

# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com

DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com

ServerName dummy-host.example.com

ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log

CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common

````

I didn't actually edit this file.

Maybe I need to add "Listen 443"?

I go tit figured out. After rebooting my linode httpd was kind enough to show me all my errors. After fixing them everything started working properly.

The actual error that was causing my problem was that I had a virtual host for port 443 defined in my vhosts file but I guess it needed to be in the ssl.conf file to avoid conflicts. I moved it there and it fixed everything.

Thanks for your help OBS!

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