Databases
StackOverflow2013
Postsdbo
POHaving trouble setting up Apache for SSL with mongrel and rails 3 in development on ubuntu
 

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals
  1. POHaving trouble setting up Apache for SSL with mongrel and rails 3 in development on ubuntu
    primarykey
    data
    text
    <p>I'm trying to setup apache2 so that I can try ssl in development on my rails 3 app on ubuntu.</p> <p>The rails app works, except for https where in Fire Fox i get:</p> <pre><code>The connection was interrupted The connection to localhost:3000 was interrupted while the page was loading. </code></pre> <p>In the console i get:</p> <pre><code>Thu Oct 14 15:56:28 +1100 2010: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): #&lt;Mongrel::HttpParserError: Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails.&gt; Thu Oct 14 15:56:28 +1100 2010: REQUEST DATA: "\200U\001\003\000\000&lt;\000\000\000\020\000\000\210\000\000\207\000\0008\000\000\204\000\0005\000\0009\000\000E\000\000D\000\0003\000\0002\000\000\226\000\000A\000\000\004\000\000\005\000\000/\000\000\026\000\000\023\000\376\377\000\000\n\000\000\377[������-V\214�e\277P-" --- PARAMS: {} --- </code></pre> <p>I get the above console error whether Apache is running or not when using https. Which makes me think https localhost:3000 requests are never passing through Apache and instead going straight to mongrel which can't handle ssl.</p> <p>Apache is working because if I go to <code>http://localhost</code> I get the default 'It Works' web page. I'm pretty sure the self signed certificates I created are also fine because going to <code>https://localhost</code> brings up the page in firefox asking if you trust the site and also lets me see the details of the certificate.</p> <p>I've done a heap of googling and I've read through and tried a bunch of guides but many of them are a few years old and possibly out of date.</p> <p>I ended up uninstalling apache2 and then reinstalling following this ubuntu guide <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/httpd.html" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/httpd.html</a> It has a section on https configuration which I did and it creates this file -> /etc/apache2/site-available/default-ssl. It looks like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_ssl.c&gt; &lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt; ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www &lt;Directory /&gt; Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;Directory /var/www/&gt; Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all &lt;/Directory&gt; ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ &lt;Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"&gt; AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all &lt;/Directory&gt; ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" &lt;Directory "/usr/share/doc/"&gt; Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 &lt;/Directory&gt; SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/server.key &lt;FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$"&gt; SSLOptions +StdEnvVars &lt;/FilesMatch&gt; &lt;Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin&gt; SSLOptions +StdEnvVars &lt;/Directory&gt; BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # MSIE 7 and newer should be able to use keepalive BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown # Used by Rails. Mentioned in all the Rails SSL tutorials. RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO "https" &lt;/VirtualHost&gt; &lt;/IfModule&gt; </code></pre> <p>All I modified in there is the certificate and key locations, made it <code>&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;</code> instead of <code>&lt;VirtualHost _default_:443&gt;</code> and added the RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO "https" line at the end as all the guides said to do. I'm not sure what else needs to be changed. At one point I did try setting the DocumentRoot to the public folder of my rails app but it didn't make a difference.</p> <p>Apache restarts fine and there are no errors in the log.</p> <p>I'm sure I must be really close to having it working but I've spent many hours over many days and just can't figure it out. My best guess is that I have something wrong or missing in the apache config file above.</p> <p><strong>My Questions are:</strong></p> <ol> <li>How do I know if the requests are actually going through apache? </li> <li>If its not why is the https ssl request going through to mongrel and not being handled by apache?</li> <li>What do I need to do to get it working?</li> </ol>
    singulars
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PTQuestion
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. USDaniel
    plurals
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
 

Querying!

 
Guidance
A row detail

Detail views are divided into sections. All the information in the data section comes from columns in the selected row. The other sections display data from other, related rows.

Related data can be related in a to-one or a to-many fashion. Captions of data related in a to-many fashion link to a list view showing a filtered view of the table.

Try moving around until you find a non-empty to-many entry and click on the label to get to one. You can move back to the root by clicking on the database name in the header.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload