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[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...

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[...] The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option)

we know about certificates, thank you

The point is that it stops AFTER the point at which I tell the browser to accept the self-signed certificates. I now even got a CACert and the problem remains: FF works, Chrome and IE don't: https://phd-bkp-gw2.ethz.ch:8080/admin/

log says: TCP connection broken [...]

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Sorry that I was mis-interpreting your question

Unfortunately I don't know what's wrong with your set-up. I can confirm that I cannot access your logbook with "konquerer", but can access it with "firefox". The "konquerer" (on Scientific Linux 5.7) just gets timed out.

But I can access other SSL/https ELOGs with the konquerer. The problem only occurs with your logbook!

Therefore I would think it is a particular problem of your installation. I have three ideas how to isolate the problem:

first, I would try to change to the standard port 443. Just in case it is related to some firewall, etc. problem.
second, I would try another operating system than Ubuntu Lucid. It should work of course with Ubuntu, but if it still doesn't work with the other operating system then many things are already ruled out.
third, I would try to set-up an apache webserver in front of ELOG. We have it here just for safety reasons. ELOG runs then on some special port and apache connects to it with a reverse proxy.

The latter is a little bit of work (about a day) if you never set-up apache before. Therefore I would try the other two, first.

Good luck!

thanks for the fast resonse.

1) port 433 done. No change

2) compiled elog 2.9.0 on Squeeze and only reused the config file. No change: https://daduke.org:8443/

3) we can do that (and we will) no problem, but I'd like to get it working w/o apache nonetheless

speaking of reverse proxy: we'd like to hook elog to our LDAP server. As there's no LDAP binding built in, is there any way to use apache LDAP auth and then bind to that one?[...]

Okay, I did run out of ideas. I've never tested Chrome, but IE 8 and konquerer works fine here with SSL for our logbooks, but not for your logbook. [...]

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And just for the record: I have to conclude a clean install of elog 2.9.0 SSL does not work for half of the browsers out there on Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu Lucid right now. You might want to look into that.

thanks,

-Christian

Excuse me, but I beg to differ. I'm running ELOG V2.9.0-2425 on my production server, therefore I thought that you're maybe right that the latest SVN snapshot has a problem.

I've downloaded it just now from SVN (it is V2.9.0- 2427), compiled it on SL 5.7, installed it and I can easily access it with IE8, Safari, konquerer and firefox.

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well maybe SL 5.7 is the explanation - it's old as the hills. Maybe newer versions of libssl or whatever make a difference? I might also try on a recent Fedora, let's see..

update: clean install on F16, plain vanilla, same problem: TCP connection broken

See https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/67184 to fix that problem. It is likely not a problem of ELOG, but of your firewall settings.

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