SSL/HTTPS Webmail (odd) issue

[oedwards0088]

Hello,

I am hoping someone on here has experienced an odd issue with SSL/HTTPS when using the webmail URL, in my case, https://my.froxlorserver.com/webmail. I can't prove it for sure however, I believe it is working for some in a different country to me but I can't connect to the above URL using https, it will connect with http on port 80. I get the below error.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /webmail on this server.

I have confirmed this on different devices using different internet connections and I have cleared the cache/browsing data.

Using Digicert's tool (https://www.digicert.com/help/) the https://Froxlor admin page comes back as a success with zero issues. If I try https://froxlor/webmail I get the below error message

Error: my.froxlor.com/webmail is not a fully qualified public domain name or public IP address.

The above error message does not make sense as using port 80 I can get to the /webmail page, so the above might be a red herring.

Has anyone seen this issue?

Thanks in advance.

[d00p]

please provide vhost of IP/Port for port 80 and 443 and also a "ls -la" of the froxlor directory to see whether webmail is located in there or an alias is used

[oedwards0088]

3 hours ago, d00p said:

please provide vhost of IP/Port for port 80 and 443 and also a "ls -la" of the froxlor directory to see whether webmail is located in there or an alias is used

Hi D00p, thanks for your help again.

1). root@post:/var/www/froxlor# ls -la

drwxr-xr-x 13 froxlor froxlor    4096 Sep  4 20:03 webmail

2). root@post:/var/www/froxlor# cat 35_froxlor_ssl_vhost_mydomain.com.conf

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:443 [x:x:x:x::x:x]:443>
  ServerName mydomain.com
  ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
  ServerAdmin myname@mydomain.com
  SSLEngine On
  SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1 +TLSv1.2
  SSLCompression Off
  SSLHonorCipherOrder On
  SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:AES128-GCM-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH
  SSLVerifyDepth 10
  SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.key-nopass
  SSLCACertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/alphassl.pem
  SSLCertificateChainFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.intermediate.txt
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=0"
  </IfModule>
  DocumentRoot "/var/customers/webs/myname/mydomain.com/"
  FcgidIdleTimeout 30
  SuexecUserGroup "myname" "myname"
  <Directory "/var/customers/webs/myname/mydomain.com/">
    <FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
      SetHandler fcgid-script
      FcgidWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/myname/mydomain.com/php-fcgi-starter .php
      Options +ExecCGI
    </FilesMatch>
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
  Alias /webalizer "/var/customers/webs/myname/webalizer"
  ErrorLog "/var/customers/logs/myname-error.log"
  CustomLog "/var/customers/logs/myname-access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

3). 

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80 [x:x:x:x::x:x]:80>
  ServerName mydomain.com
  ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
  ServerAdmin myname@mydomain.com
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301;L,NE]
  </IfModule>
  <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    Redirect 301 / https://mydomain.com/
  </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

 

[d00p]

not the 35_* configs, please nopaste 10_*.conf vhosts, these are for froxlor

[oedwards0088]

AhHa! With your help I have temporarily fixed it.

root@me:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# cat 10_froxlor_ipandport_138.68.188.75.443.conf

<VirtualHost 138.68.188.75:443>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/froxlor/"
 ServerName post.mydomain.com
  FcgidIdleTimeout 30
  SuexecUserGroup "froxlor" "froxlor"
  <Directory "/var/www/froxlor/">
    <FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
      SetHandler fcgid-script
      FcgidWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/froxlor.panel/post.onyourcloud.zone/php-fcgi-starter .php
      Options +ExecCGI
    </FilesMatch>
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
 Alias /webmail /var/lib/roundcube
 SSLEngine On
 SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1 +TLSv1.2
 SSLCompression Off
 SSLHonorCipherOrder On
 SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:AES128-GCM-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH
 SSLVerifyDepth 10
 SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.crt
 SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.key-nopass
 SSLCACertificateFile /usr/local/ssl/alphassl.pem
 SSLCertificateChainFile /usr/local/ssl/post.mydomain.com.intermediate.txt
</VirtualHost>

I hashed out the Alias line like the below

#Alias /webmail /var/lib/roundcube

Then

service apache2 reload && service apache2 restart

I was then able to connect to the web mail server using https://post.mydomain.com/webmail. I believe, when some were able to access the webmail using https and some were not, the people who were able to were using IPV6 not IPv4.

The problem I have is the comment in that file says not to manually updated the file as it will be overwritten, as per the below.

# 10_froxlor_ipandport_X.X.X.X.443.conf
# Created 19.09.2017 10:10
# Do NOT manually edit this file, all changes will be deleted after the next domain change at the panel.

What do I need to do to make this a permanent change?

Thanks in advance.

[oedwards0088]

I also have a question with regards to how to permanently redirect http > https. I modified the below file and added the bold redirect line.

Redirect / https://post.onyourcloud.zone/

<VirtualHost X.X.X.X:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/froxlor/"
 ServerName post.mydomain.com
 Redirect / https://post.mydomain.com/
  FcgidIdleTimeout 30
  SuexecUserGroup "froxlor" "froxlor"
  <Directory "/var/www/froxlor/">
    <FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
      SetHandler fcgid-script
      FcgidWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/froxlor.panel/post.onyourcloud.zone/php-fcgi-starter .php
      Options +ExecCGI
    </FilesMatch>
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
  FcgidIdleTimeout 30
  SuexecUserGroup "froxlor" "froxlor"
  <Directory "/var/www/froxlor/">
    <FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
      SetHandler fcgid-script
      FcgidWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/froxlor.panel/post.onyourcloud.zone/php-fcgi-starter .php
      Options +ExecCGI
    </FilesMatch>
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Again, this file will be overwritten so I need to know how to make the permanent change.

[d00p]

Edit the IP/Port as Admin

[oedwards0088]

18 minutes ago, d00p said:

Edit the IP/Port as Admin

as in add line to this free text field 'Default vHost-settings for every domain container: '?

I have tried that and it had no effect.

[d00p]

There should be the line "Alias /webmail /var/lib/roundcube" somewhere in the ip/port settings, you do not want to ADD this line, you want to remove it

[oedwards0088]

Thanks d00p. That has now sorted it.

If anyone else comes across this problem where webmail was either not working or only working for some, hopefully this will help.

The server was migrated from one service provider to another. There was a line in the Froxlor config, Resources > Ips and Ports > x.x.x.x:443 that was 

Alias /webmail /var/lib/roundcube

Once this was removed, webmail starting working properly.

The reason it was working for some and not all is that on the old platform it did not have IPV6 hence on the new platform it was fresh and working fine.