I manually updated my webmin SSL private key and certificate and now I can't access webmin

Submitted by kindnation on Fri, 05/16/2014 - 10:14

The reason why I had to manually configure the SSL certificate and keys is because I'm using Nginx, so I went to Webmin and saw that the location for the webmin cert is stored in /etc/webmin/miniserv.pem and /etc/webmin/miniserv.cert.

I replaced the old key and cert by copy and pasting the new key and cert in the miniserv.pem and miniserv.cert respectively.

Now I can't even access the page. Image attached.

What can I do to access webmin again?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by andreychek on Fri, 05/16/2014 - 10:24

Howdy -- were there other changes made at the same time? It sounds like you're seeing a problem where your browser and Webmin can't find an SSL cipher that they can both agree on.

However, to access Webmin again, what you can do is log in via SSH and edit "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf" and change the line "ssl=1" to "ssl=0".

Then, restart Webmin, and you can access it in "http://" until the SSL issue is resolved.

Submitted by kindnation on Fri, 05/16/2014 - 11:33

Thanks for the help!

I generated a new CSR from webmin, instead of doing it from openssl this time and resubmitted for a new certificate and now it works.