This is unrelated to the problem I was seeing (the websocket server
was failing).
The message in the error log:
[Sat Oct 03 13:52:54.956298 2020] [proxy:error] [pid 1042:tid
140478557177600] [client 71.204.185.91:59703] AH00898: Error during
SSL Handshake with remote server returned by /board/agenda/websocket/
The relevant portion of the Apache configuration:
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyPass "/board/agenda/websocket/" "wss://localhost:34234/"
So it looks like the Apache web server is trying to create a SSL
connection to a localhost websocket, and isn't happy about something,
most likely the certificate as it isn't possible to create a
certificate for localhost. But whimsy-vm4 is set up the same way, and
works. Not sure what the difference is, perhaps the newer libraries
are actually checking the certificate now, or perhaps the base puppet
configuration is different.
The following seems to have some suggestions worth exploring:
https://serverfault.com/questions/538086/proxyerror-ah00898-error-during-ssl-handshake-with-remote-server
- Sam Ruby
P.S. It does seem odd that the whimsy_error.log is empty and the
errors are going to whimsy_error.log.1.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:43 PM Roy T. Fielding <field...@gbiv.com> wrote:
>
> I was going to send out reminders under "missing" but the agenda
> won't fill the email form after clicking on "send initial reminders".
>
> My web console shows 500 errors every few minutes
>
> GET wss://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/websocket/[HTTP/1.1 500 Internal
> Server Error 763ms]
>
> GET
> wss://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/websocket/
> Status
> 500
> Internal Server Error
> VersionHTTP/1.1
> Transferred253 B (0 B size)
> Accept-Ranges
> bytes
> Connection
> close
> Content-Length
> 5220
> Content-Type
> text/html
> Date
> Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:37:16 GMT
>
> I would guess this is the issue that Sam talked about earlier,
> but I thought it was fixed already.
>
> Er, looks like the error logs just rotated. Is some work being done?
>
> ....Roy
>
