I just set up SSL on my droplet today, but when I tried to access the SSL version of my site, I was greeted with a “SSL Connection Error”. I access the IP address of my site via SSL and received the error message below. But when I accessed the mapped domain of my site, via SSL, I received a 525 Server Error; “SSL handshake failed” Any advice?
Exact error message: Unable to make a secure connection to the server. This may be a problem with the server, or it may be requiring a client authentication certificate that you don’t have. Error code: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
Mapped Domain Error message via CloudFlare: http://postimg.org/image/nvwzzuyb5/
Tutorial I followed: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-with-a-free-signed-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps
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I finally fixed it after, what felt like a lifetime of editing virtual host files.
DocumentRoot /Directory/of/Website/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /Directory/of/Website/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Change “none” in the “AllowOverride” lines to “all” in the Virtual Host config for port 443. Or whatever port you have SSL running on.
Well, I disabled Bitdefender’s scan SSL function and everything seems to work find now…
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