Enabling ssl crashes windows nginx 1.0.0

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:57:57PM -0400, jakehilton wrote:
> I just got nginx running great on my windows box over port 80. As soon
> as I tried to have it serve up ssl things quickly degrade.
> 
> After starting up nginx I get a prompt to enter my passphrase for my ssl
> which is correct. After entering the passphrase.. nginx looks to run for
> 5 seconds and then quits. I see this in the log:
> 
> 2011/04/18 09:49:09 [alert] 1992#4548: the event "ngx_master_1992" was
> not signaled for 5s
> 
> I'm not sure what can be done about this error. My conf looks like:
> 
> server {
>         listen      443 default ssl;
>         server_name  _;
> 
>         ssl_certificate      ssl/mysite.crt;
>         ssl_certificate_key  ssl/mysite.key;
> 
>         location / {
>             root   html;
>             index  index.html index.htm;
> 
> 
>         }
> }
> 
> I feel like I'm missing something rather minor. Any help would be much
> appreciated.

An nginx worker of Windows version does not inherit configuraiton
file from a master process as Unix version does. So it loads certificate
separately and waits for the passphrase too. The only solution is to
remove passphrase from certificate key.


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Igor Sysoev