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singpolyma
Asked: 2009-11-25 13:01:56 +0800 CST

Internet Explorer won't load site

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Internet Explorer (versions 6 and 8, on XP) refuse to load https://theveeb.com, giving a server not found error.

http://wiki.theveeb.com works, so it can talk to the apache2 server I have running there.

The only thing I can think of is that IE is hating my SSL setup... but I can't think of why that would be or what I need to do to fix it.

When I try http://theveeb.com in the same browsers, I get the same effect. They should redirect to https://, but they don't seem to, they just error.

Firefox, Uzbl, curl, wget on Ubunt work fine wget.exe on Windows seems to also work fine

ssl

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have found the issue. When you have SSLVerifyClient optional in your config file, IE completely fails to load the page. Wow.

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  2. Looks like you have MIME type problem. When I go to http://theveeb.com in IE8, it prompts me to download your HTML.

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  3. I could be completely wrong, but theveeb.com and wiki.theveeb.com both resolve to the same ip address so shouldn't one or both of them be configured with host headers? If wiki.theveeb.com works then I'm assuming that it's the default web site on the server and that theveeb.com site should be configured with host headers. Am I wrong?

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  4. user@lap:~$ curl hXXp://theveeb.com/ -IL
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:23:45 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: hXXps://theveeb.com/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:23:46 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Accept
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

your page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "hXXp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="hXXp://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="theveeb">
....



user@lap:~$ curl hXXps://theveeb.com/ -I
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:24:40 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Accept
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8
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