# SSL testing on localhost - segfaults aplenty! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 19, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-testing-on-localhost-segfaults-aplenty/168361 "2009-05-19T23:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zamo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-testing-on-localhost-segfaults-aplenty/168361/1 "2009-05-19T23:44:59Z")
Hello, I’ve followed the tutorial @ [http://weeatbricks.com/2007/10/31/how-to-use-a-rails-app-with-https/](http://weeatbricks.com/2007/10/31/how-to-use-a-rails-app-with-https/) to setup SSL on localhost, wanting to use https for logging in and such. Using the method described above I get sensibly higher load times and of course very very frequent and random segfaults (be it ActiveRecord, Mongrel or any other .rb causing it) !! Platform is…well Win32. I’ve tried the method with Ruby 1.8.6 latest, 1.8.7 latest (today), 1.9.1 latest (today) and Ruby on Rails 2.2.2, 2.3.2 . I might add that 1.9.1 latest doesn’t even start the server, sheesh ! I’m quite baffled, I’ve developed before with 1.8.6, 2.2.2 and no SSL thoughts, it went splending. Having to went the extra 1-2 minutes to restart the server every time a segfault occurs is really dampening my dev time 😑 On secound thought, is there another way of enabling SSL, other than that from the abovementioned tutorial for Win32 ? There are a lot for the UNIX world yet for the less inclined in the field only this one. Any help (Apache config, Mongrel config, other tutorial, anything whatsoever 🙂 ) is greatly appreciated ! Thank you in advance ! ---
**Author:** ![zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zamo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-testing-on-localhost-segfaults-aplenty/168361/2 "2009-05-20T03:34:53Z")
Where is the segfault? Does Apache work like normal if you hit http and https ? You should be able hit the site with both before you even install the rail ssl require plugin. Mongrel does not care about if the client is talking http or https with Apache. Does the site work like normal if you hit Mongrel direct? ---
**Author:** ![zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zamo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-testing-on-localhost-segfaults-aplenty/168361/3 "2009-05-20T09:35:21Z")
Hello Freddy, Thank you for the reply ! Here is one sample segfault after 2 refreshes on one of the pages : "Processing MainController#signup (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-05-20 09:24:34) [GET] D:/nu codes/R/ruby-1.8.6/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/lib/mongrel.rb:114: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31) [i386-mswin32] This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information." I tried hitting Mongrel direct but forgot to edit the line in my /etc/hosts Win32 file - contents thereof are : 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 www.niche.eu ::1 localhost So it did not work with Mongrel direct until after introducing the first line. As in the server not responding on [http://localhost:3333](http://localhost:3333), responding on the fake domain name [http://www.niche.eu](http://www.niche.eu)[:3333, eventually] → on the fake domain name I’m able to do https. Should I dig into the Apache logs ? Maybe there is a timeout value in the httpd config, or it is not properly setup ? I must say I’ve never looked into Apache before, just wanted to have a solution of working https. Another striking issue is that I cannot get the web interface to Apache (as in [http://localhost](http://localhost)) to work, perhaps it has something to do with the hosts file having those redirects. Nevertheless, Apache works - going to [http://www.niche.eu](http://www.niche.eu) redirects it to Mongrel, the site shows up. Mongrel with https obviously not reachable ([https://localhost:3333/](https://localhost:3333/)). Apache https with port included not reachable ([https://www.niche.eu:3333/](https://www.niche.eu:3333/)) Or maybe I didn’t get the hit Mongrel / hit Apache correctly ? 🙂 Thank you for your input ! I’m gonna try and investigate the matter further. Freddy A. wrote: > Where is the segfault? > > Does Apache work like normal if you hit http and https ? You should be > able hit the site with both before you even install the rail ssl > require plugin. Mongrel does not care about if the client is talking > http or https with Apache. > > Does the site work like normal if you hit Mongrel direct? ---
**Author:** ![zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@zamo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zamo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-testing-on-localhost-segfaults-aplenty/168361/4 "2009-05-26T03:19:07Z")
Note to all those bewildered by random segfaults – REPLACE MYSQL 5.1 WITH A PREVIOUS VERSION and then copy a older libMySQL.dll to your ruby bin directory. Already seen here : [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/66c916fabd91406a?pli=1](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/66c916fabd91406a?pli=1) [http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=28080](http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=28080) Enjoy, it took me more than 1 month to figure out what the bleep it could be…