VanLUG Email Archive
Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Tue, 11 May 1999 19:25:24 -0700
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:05:34AM -0700, Pickell, Kevin wrote:
>
> Here is my current setup at home:
>
> Machine 1. P90 - Linux Redhat 5.1 connected to rogers wave (www.scale18.com)
> Machine 2. P200 - Windoze (connected to machine 1 to talk to outside world)
> Machine 3. P200 - Linux Redhat 5.1 (also connected to machine 1 to talk to
> outside world)
>
> Currently Machine 1 is my firewall and also runs my webpage server (Apache).
>
> I have just installed a Redhat Secure Server and a temporary certificate on
> Machine 3 and
> would like to know if it is possible to run the server from Machine 3
> (192.168.0.3 internal IP)
> and have it be forwarded to the outside world through machine 1 (and
> obviously stop running
> the server on machine 1).
Yes, if you are using a 2.0.x kernel, the tool to use is ipportfw, if you
have a 2.2.x kernel, use ipmasqadm. Note that both of these require kernel
settings.
>
> Also an non-linux question. The Redhat Secure server software works fine
> when accessing
> regular pages but if I try to access them via the secure channel https:
> nothing happends.
> Do I have to do anything special to have it run secure? Netscape does go
> through the whole
> "I don't know this authority" stuff and then nothing. Could this be because
> I am accessing it
> from 192.168.0.1 and my temporary certificate that I made has it down as
> www.scale18.com?
My initial suspicion is that your httpd.conf file refers to a non-existant
directory as the document-root for your https server. Have a look through
it.
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