"SSL input filter read failed" Apache and 443

Question

I have a little problem with my apache conf. When I read the error log, here is what I can see:

[client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01964: Connection to child 1 established (server www.mywebsite.com:443) [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01964: Connection to child 6 established (server www.mywebsite.com:443) [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01964: Connection to child 10 established (server www.mywebsite.com:443) [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01964: Connection to child 15 established (server www.mywebsite.com:443) [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01964: Connection to child 18 established (server www.mywebsite.com:443) (70014)End of file found: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. (70014)End of file found: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. (70014)End of file found: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. (70014)End of file found: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. (70014)End of file found: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. 

And sometimes, this one:

 (70007)The timeout specified has expired: [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. 

I don't know actually ... so my website is full HTTP, except two page in HTTPS. So here is my virtualHost:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mywebsite.com Redirect permanent / http://www.mywebsite.com/ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.mywebsite.com ServerAlias img.mywebsite.com ServerAdmin xxx DocumentRoot /home/mywebsite/www/public <Directory /home/mywebsite/www/> Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Require all granted ErrorDocument 403 http://www.google.com/ </Directory> <Directory /home/mywebsite/www/public/resource/private/> Require all denied ErrorDocument 403 http://www.mywebsite.com/ </Directory> <Location "/robots.txt"> Require all granted </Location> LogLevel info ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite_error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite_access.log combined </VirtualHost> <IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName www.mywebsite.com DocumentRoot /home/mywebsite/www/public <Directory /home/mywebsite/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks Multiviews AllowOverride all Require all granted </Directory> LogLevel info ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite_error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mywebsite_access.log combined SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile ./mywebsite.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile ./mywebsite.key SSLCertificateChainFile ./intermediate.crt </VirtualHost> </IfModule> 

So, where I've done a mistake? I can't find it out ... Can you help me?

thank :)

Answer 1

I read that Apache doesn't support SSL on name-based virtual host, only on IP based Virtual Hosts. So I changed it:

 <VirtualHost *:443> 

by:

 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:443> 

For now, it seems to work, I don't know if it's the good solution, but I don't have any error ...

Answer 2

One more requirement is add the following line to the end of your VirtualHost SSL port 443 directives blocks

SetEnv nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown 

As stated here:

Answer 3

for me ridiculously simple solution for this error as follows (this error shown up after adding files/folders as root):

chown www-data: /var/www -R chmod 755 /var/www -R 

Answer 4

I had the same error and for me the reason was that <VirtualHost *:443> has been defined in 2 different config files in Apache. Once in the SSL.conf and the second time in the .conf file I was adding. Once I removed reference to <VirtualHost *:443> (with its closing argument) from my second file everything worked.