hello list, I am attempting to load balance SSL web servers using haproxy on centos 5.7. I am using HA-Proxy version 1.4.18 Here is the stanza in the config regarding SSL: listen https 192.168.1.200:443 mode tcp balance roundrobin option forwardfor except 192.168.1.200 option redispatch maxconn 10000 reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ https server web1 web1.summitnjhome.com:443 maxconn 5000 server web2 web2.summitnjhome.com:443 maxconn 5000 I can connect to https on each web server and have it serve content. the IP 192.168.1.200 is a virtual IP created with keepalived and floating between two load balancers. I can connect to the virtual ip via openssl s_connect and GET / where i see the source code for the home page openssl s_client -connect 192.168.1.200:443 CONNECTED(00000003) --- Certificate chain 0 s:/C=US/ST=NJ/L=Summit/O=SNJH/CN=*.example.com/emailAddress=bluethundr at example.com i:/C=US/ST=NJ/L=Summit/O=SNJH/CN=*.example.com/emailAddress=bluethundr at example.com --- Server certificate -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIFejCCA2ICCQCjGRFk9cQ13zANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADB/MQswCQYDVQQGEwJV UzELMAkGA1UECBMCTkoxDzANBgNVBAcTBlN1bW1pdDENMAsGA1UEChMEU05KSDEb MBkGA1UEAwwSKi5zdW1taXRuamhvbWUuY29tMSYwJAYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhdibHVl dGh1bmRyQGpva2VmaXJlLmNvbTAeFw0xMTA5MjUwMjU4NTRaFw0xMjA5MjQwMjU4 NTRaMH8xCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMQswCQYDVQQIEwJOSjEPMA0GA1UEBxMGU3VtbWl0 MQ0wCwFAKEFDATA4Yj2LgSBwxezlE CMmqfE0Sg0lgKe3jmyzNHCAHGrzMKVdIUW7UBI+V4wZyE08Mw3HUh13To6DzBnmp ET+zvFk5uUnbpzk3FWYFPPxiESuIEQKmi+MzrPnM6hjKc+Caq7rBxdWvg0d8eNsN t2+UJxTJpnucgnAtIbAktNlsbYhb4Yw9iFs1YecPqvtaS22ZsChmlDAwpQYhn88p OK+K9qOg8bMYThe6xPaAK1sMk+YfmhSPIaT974FYSIeFeY8fFa8zIZbiUcSxOnyM fI/xh2uMwJkpxzHBXJWQxP3LZlgghSyuzL9j/g16xLZ3BotYwTGqHzMuoDVXQijq 92YTmeSl5bPaNro1stExh4ug+zk2IqrowciZ1Ehk1vQKCl31GjLKFX1P3fhwjt0o /lQBnIgRtBFSI9RVP41+PTPjXXVzhqlgf3h1oFJ36sOQeg8342Hu0UWFg6gpy+q/ 7iyuVV0CAwEAATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFAAOCAgEABdQxDHPkpQV+A1RnwGP9nGNC 1uR+MTnuuowiUIEsTkSTipSlviVHlJx8CYDkQ3kcBiPJk6SjuOT8WrFu9D7+nAr8 7SNGknoe7flxhxI0fIqeLaQIncEAliv5mzw/agj2htn7GTmhP3At+JD3e3FYCrLI kUoom53wLzJvoSu2ixBdY9yLQePC5AYBIlI6RVyCLMPQVen0fvgI7Ecyx+vvpjvD Cu+rnGKxplPwROlFe2NPrLrV7pnGYGNcLSkO5fF32b3XvKob+xRG+rCUvmYtHA6y 6lEOBz8prwfc6ZTum+9vpb5ONmWtSaYn7mjPR/jw55kLSZ+NggW5YH6lqL8jb8b0 kNHZKgInSFSmoMY2W7pEq4ZQ5S8m5VrruBzqXNnCJ5NmQqF8bM97k81ATZoZ+r6z oo51BfFGJSQdnGJNDJnBnl7bf9ynSbkYV3VidRNGHm+Gr/YYP32ITihlZLTioCmk Wt+2x0xRk5jUS+MjCn5ozYTph3PxU/wW913+HCjDzx0g4fDLYW+YbWmV4zdls/Z7 pxdYaFDR594Ov1H7E2wPZeWBmR+7kT2ZFwOXVQb0qF2Dx5Q0dbZ9TEu8rTJ7jdjD he/odOx11Qmiau/UYd5c0Pop6dJu3NhnlromNSAKR5QlTWE4UerOOyxwV+OklsDt 8qijXOiRdqk4efqL4cs= -----END CERTIFICATE----- subject=/C=US/ST=NJ/L=Summit/O=SNJH/CN=*.example.com/emailAddress=bluethundr at example.com issuer=/C=US/ST=NJ/L=Summit/O=SNJH/CN=*.example.com/emailAddress=bluethundr at example.com --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 2361 bytes and written 319 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Server public key is 4096 bit Secure Renegotiation IS supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Session-ID: 74AE373F9F177593D9CF8FFDFE2EDEB6C11958BF03E5315FC49C0641A17A6277 Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: E4C07C8D40B045FB30F612966F587AC30E3859913795B22D586D598F9EB3FE5BD97F6511920793E29EA363FE9A3961DD Key-Arg : None Krb5 Principal: None Start Time: 1318902076 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) --- <html> <head> <img src='Illustration.jpg'</img> </head> </html> closed For now it's just a demo page with more complex content living deeper in the directory structure. A port scan with nmap shows that port 443 is open... [root at VIRTCENT02:~] #nmap -p 443 192.168.1.200 Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2011-10-17 21:59 EDT Interesting ports on 192.168.1.200: PORT STATE SERVICE 443/tcp open https And the port 443 is being listened to.. [root at VIRTCENT02:~] #lsof -i :443 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME haproxy 1763 haproxy 6u IPv4 7586 TCP VIRTUAL.example.com:https (LISTEN) [root at VIRTCENT01:~] #netstat -tulpn | grep 443 tcp 0 0 192.168.1.200:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1752/haproxy But a page will not render in a web page. Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at virtual.example.com. And there is no activity in the haproxy debug logs when I hit the web page at this address which should map to that ip. [root at VIRTCENT01:~] #host virtual.example.com virtual.example.com has address 192.168.1.200 Thanks in advance! tim