Certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

Question

I'm using XAMPP and started Apache but I cannot access my site over HTTPS.

I get the following error;

[Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.208723 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name [Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.746774 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name [Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.825871 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH00455: Apache/2.4.7 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.5.6 configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.825871 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC11 Server built: Nov 21 2013 20:13:01 [Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.825871 2014] [core:notice] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH00094: Command line: 'c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe -d C:/xampp/apache' [Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.830753 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 4452 [Wed Aug 20 08:05:35.148052 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 4452:tid 268] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

Below is a snippet from my httpd-ssl.conf file:

# SSL Virtual Host Context
<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName www.example.com:443
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ErrorLog "C:/xampp/apache/logs/error.log"
TransferLog "C:/xampp/apache/logs/access.log"

</VirtualHost>

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Solution 1

[Wed Aug 20 08:05:33.208723 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 3784:tid 256] AH01909: RSA certificate configured for www.example.com:443 does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

This means there might be a server name of foo.example.com but the certificate is for bar.example.com only. In that situation, while Apache might try to serve such certificate, the browser s will not accept them when accessing https://foo.example.com, for instance.

Solution 2

server name used in Apache (httpd.conf) must be the same as the server name in apache (httpd-ssl.conf) e.g. in Apache (httpd.conf) ServerName localhost:8080 then in apache (httpd-ssl.conf) should be like this ServerName www.example.com:8080