Sunday, April 10, 2016

Apache proxy to tomcat - Error during SSL Handshake with remote server (AH00898), pass request body failed (AH01097)

An error like the below means that certificates in the proxy server and the target server are not the same or are expired:
[Sun Apr 10 08:13:51.513836 2016] [proxy:error] [pid 32426:tid 140087715120896] [client 192.168.0.5:34425] AH00898: Error during SSL Handshake with remote server returned by /some/path
[Sun Apr 10 08:13:51.513848 2016] [proxy_http:error] [pid 32426:tid 140087715120896] [client 192.168.0.5:34425] AH01097: pass request body failed to 192.168.0.5:8443 (sample.com) from 192.168.0.5 ()
To understand exactly what is going on increase log level temporarily:
LogLevel info proxy:trace5
This will explain what is going on, for example:
[Sun Apr 10 11:45:30.708783 2016] [ssl:info] [pid 26391:tid 140560622925568] [remote 192.168.0.5:8443] AH02004: SSL Proxy: Peer certificate is expired
A one-liner will reveal why. The cert below just expired:
$ echo | openssl s_client -connect 192.168.0.5:8443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates | grep 'notAfter=.*GMT'
notAfter=Apr 10 12:13:04 2016 GMT
To avoid cluster node certificates expiring at a different time that those from the proxy server use the same for all! To confirm they are the same use a hash to compare they are indeed the same:
$ md5sum /opt/tomcat/certs/my.crt
$ md5sum /opt/tomcat/certs/my.crt
$ md5sum /etc/apache2/certs/my.crt 
$ md5sum /etc/apache2/certs/my.key

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