Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/whmredirect.cgi

[yeohbaby]

The redirect to whm doesn't seem to be working properly.

We have an ssl site set up, so if you specify https://somesite.com:2087, it works.

If you specify http://somesite.com/whm, it works.

However, if you specify https://somesite.com/whm it fails with a 500 Internal server error. The error log shows the following message:
Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/whmredirect.cgi

We set whm to require an ssl connection for cpanel/whm.

How do we get this last method to work also?

Thanks.

[yeohbaby]

Any cpanel admins able to help or point me towards something?

[haze]

Ok, here's the problem. The certificate is for the domain on that port ( thats how its been installed ). When you call using /whm its using apache to pass the user onto WHM. Since the cert is installed for WHM and apache, it doesn't see the cert as existing. There may be a way around this but i'm not sure, you may need 2 certs, one for the domain on regular apache and 1 for whm or you may be able to use the cert on both ( I haven't tried, so i can't confirm ).

Just out of curiosity, was there any reason in perticular you purchased an SSL cert for WHM ? Was it just to get rid of the popup message ?

[dezignguy]

Well, all three of your methods work for me on my server...

But I have the WHM Tweak Settings | "When visiting /cpanel or /whm or /webmail with ssl redirect to the servers hostname" checked and on. I think that might be what does it.

Using 9.9.9-STABLE_15

[yeohbaby]

Well, all three of your methods work for me on my server...

But I have the WHM Tweak Settings | "When visiting /cpanel or /whm or /webmail with ssl redirect to the servers hostname" checked and on. I think that might be what does it.

Using 9.9.9-STABLE_15

I have this turned on also. With this on, the http request is properly redirected to the secure site. The https request is the one that fails.

[yeohbaby]

Ok, here's the problem. The certificate is for the domain on that port ( thats how its been installed ). When you call using /whm its using apache to pass the user onto WHM. Since the cert is installed for WHM and apache, it doesn't see the cert as existing. There may be a way around this but i'm not sure, you may need 2 certs, one for the domain on regular apache and 1 for whm or you may be able to use the cert on both ( I haven't tried, so i can't confirm ).

Just out of curiosity, was there any reason in perticular you purchased an SSL cert for WHM ? Was it just to get rid of the popup message ?

I believe that WHM has it's own cert to provide the ssl connection, which is currently different from the one we installed into Apache.

We bought a cert for our site to provide secure connections for users to do their own transactions and submit payment to us online.

Is it just a problem of 2 different certs and I just have to install our cert into whm also?

[dezignguy]

Hmm, well if you installed your cert manually, I suppose that could be it... I installed my cert through WHM, so it's the cert that WHM/Cpanel uses for all its secure operations.