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Why do I get “Connection Refused\ messages when trying to access my freshly installed Apache+mod_ssl server via HTTPS?

April 26, 2017apache+mod_ssl freshly HTTPS installed Messages refused server

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Why do I get “Connection Refused\ messages when trying to access my freshly installed Apache+mod_ssl server via HTTPS?

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[L] There can be various reasons. Some of the common mistakes is that people start Apache with just “apachectl start” (or “httpd”) instead of “apachectl startssl” (or “httpd -DSSL”. Or you’re configuration is not correct. At least make sure that your “Listen” directives match your “” directives. And if all fails, please do yourself a favor and start over with the default configuration mod_ssl provides you. • In my CGI programs and SSI scripts the various documented SSL_XXX variables do not exists. Why? [L] Just make sure you have “SSLOptions +StdEnvVars” enabled for the context of your CGI/SSI requests. • How can I use relative hyperlinks to switch between HTTP and HTTPS? [L] Usually you have to use fully-qualified hyperlinks because you have to change the URL scheme. But with the help of some URL manipulations through mod_rewrite you can achieve the same effect while you still can use relative URLs: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*):SSL$ https://%{SERVER_N

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There can be various reasons. Some of the common mistakes is that people start Apache with just “apachectl start” (or “httpd”) instead of “apachectl startssl” (or “httpd -DSSL”. Or you’re configuration is not correct. At least make sure that your Listen directives match your directives. And if all fails, please do yourself a favor and start over with the default configuration mod_ssl provides you.