On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:31, Linn Kubler wrote: > I'm learning Linux with Fedora Core 2 and picked up a book called > Setting Up LAMP. I just worked through installing Apache 1.3.32 with > SSL support per the instructions in the book. All seemed to go well, > however, SSL isn't working. > > When I enter https://192.168.1.10 I get this error: > The connection was refused when attempting to contact 192.168.1.10 > > When I checked the Apache error logs I only see a message about a file > missing, favicon.ico, doubt that has anything to do with it. > > Tried disabling the firewall and that didn't help. > > I ran nmap from another server and it shows: > 443/tcp closed https > > If I understand that correctly, it means that the port is open in the > firewall but that the service is not running. Not sure how to tell > what went wrong here, didn't see any error messages when compiling and > installing and I've double/triple checked my install scripts compared > to what the book instructs and can't see any problems there. Unless > something is missing that I'm not aware of. > > I am guessing this isn't the proper forum for this question but I > haven't gotten any replies to my posting on apachefreaks and can't > seem to get subscribed to Apache's community listserv. So any help is > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Linn The Apache httpd webserver is not running out of the box (for security). Have you turned it on? As root: service httpd status will tell you, and service httpd start will turn it on. chkconfig --level 345 httpd on will turn it on a boot time. HTH Chris
