Please help, my production server is down because of this mess!!!!
I've been successfully using various version of Tomcat for serveral years with the same certificate... all worked well. The last server I was using was 5.0.28... which kept crashing every day! Looking at the log files did not give any hint as to what was making it crash. Actually it didn't even seem to log anything out of the ordinary. I wanted to test the stability of Tomcat 5.5.17, so I installed in on the same server but renamed all the 8XXX ports to 9XXX so that it could be run in parallel to the 5.0.28 server. When I started the 5.5.17 server, I noticed that I could not get the HTTPS (SSL) pages working correctly. The normal HTTP pages were working correctly though. Then the real trouble started!! I could not load any HTTPS pages from any server thereafter... The SSL pages DID work on the 5.0.28 prior to testing the 5.5.17, but now HTTPS no longer works at all. When trying to load the ssl pages from the browser it says nothing... just a timeout occures. The logs don't show a single trace that something (a page) was not properly sent. Using 'netstat -ln' shows that the ports are successfully bound. The only message I'm capable of getting is with lynx: bash> lynx https://localhost:8443 Will display the following line: SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y) Appart from installing and running server 5.5.17, nothing has changed on my server, so its weird that my production 5.0.28 should stop working because of this test??? If you have questions, please ask... Thanks in advance, Jeach!
