Snapshot on 11th Jan 2011 GUI not work

iFloris

Accessing the gui over https is working again for me using 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Thu Jan 13 19:33:19 EST 2011.
Thanks jimp!

siey2005

I just tried the build now.. still failed.
Thanks.

LostInIgnorance

Doesn't work for me either?

jimp

What errors are showing up in the system log now? What about /var/log/lighttpd.error.log?

LostInIgnorance

System Log

Jan 14 10:23:53 	php: /system_advanced_admin.php: webConfigurator configuration has changed. Restarting webConfigurator.
Jan 14 10:23:53 	check_reload_status: webConfigurator restart in progress
Jan 14 10:23:55 	php: : The command '/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf' returned exit code '255', the output was '2011-01-14 10:23:55: (network.c.565) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0) /var/etc/ca.pem'
Jan 14 10:23:55 	php: : Creating rrd update script
Jan 14 10:25:14 	check_reload_status: syncing firewall

/var/log/lighttpd.error.log

2011-01-14 10:17:40: (log.c.166) server started 
2011-01-14 10:17:46: (log.c.166) server started 
2011-01-14 10:23:55: (log.c.166) server started 
2011-01-14 10:25:18: (log.c.166) server started 
2011-01-14 10:25:20: (log.c.166) server started

uncon

I've been able to work around this by commenting out the following line from /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf:

ssl.ca-file = "/var/etc/ca.pem"

Then, restarting lighttpd:

lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf

It appears that the CA cert / key pair do not survive.

jimp

That's the thing, with the default webgui cert there is no ca, so that line isn't there. I have no such line on mine.

jimp

Does /var/etc/ca.pem exist? If it does, is it empty? Or does it actually have the ca certificate in it?

uncon

When this issue occurs, the file ("/var/etc/ca.pem") exists and is empty. I think this is only an issue if you create your own CA and subsequently a certificate for use with the webgui.

jimp

When you do "ls -l /var/etc/ca.pem" does it show as 0 bytes, or does it actually have some (blank) content in it like spaces or blank lines?

jimp

I've made a cert from an existing CA and used it and it was OK, and I made a fresh CA and cert and used it and it was still OK… so if there is something happening it's likely related to your config in some way.

I can add some extra safety belts around writing out the CA. It already checks if it's empty (as in empty string, "") but it should probably actually be using php's empty() call instead.

uncon

I can't seem to reproduce this now, but IIRC, the file was 0 bytes.

LostInIgnorance

@jimp:

That's the thing, with the default webgui cert there is no ca, so that line isn't there. I have no such line on mine.

JimP, like you, I have no such line in my /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf

jimp

@LostInIgnorance:

JimP, like you, I have no such line in my /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf

To get the error you posted earlier, you have to have the ca line in the lighty config. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't get the error about ca.pem.

LostInIgnorance

If I understand correctly, I should have that line in my file?

EDIT: I can't verify if it is in there because when I change the login to HTTPS I get a timeout on my browser and have to reset it using the "Set interface(s) IP address" on the console to revert back to HTTP.

jimp

You posted that you had an error referencing ca.pem, in order for that error to happen, you have to have a line in the lighty config file that references ca.pem.

LostInIgnorance

It is due to a CA getting deleted. My main CA that was created to access the webgui was deleted, but I am questioning why it has been deleted on two different machines with different configurations. Wondering if it happened with one of the upgrades because it has been in there since I initially configured the firewall.

EDIT: All is working now that I recreated the CA. Thanks JimP!!

jimp

I've never had a CA go missing, and I have VMs with up to 10 CAs on them that I use when testing the cert manager…

LostInIgnorance

The CA still shows up in my backup (from Nov. 1st) but doesn't show on the firewall itself config when I backed it up now. It shows the newly generated one in it, but not the old one from the Nov. 1st backup.

jimp

Make sure you are looking in the right spot. The CA's should be near the bottom and not under <system>- they used to be there before in really old configs but were moved quite some time ago (and the upgrade code relocated them)

They should be under their own <ca>tag, <cert>tag, and <crl>tag toward the end of the config.

I just checked in a better test to make sure an empty CA isn't written out or used. Next snapshot should have it – one was not building but the commit should make the builders start a new run.</crl></cert></ca></system>