[Pound Mailing List] RE: Pound with https:https -- issue with .pem cert in /etc/pound

With a correction to my pound.cfg at the end - forgot to name the

From: Cory Sanders [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 4:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Pound Mailing List] Pound with https:https -- issue with .pem cert in /etc/pound

I have a server running ProxMox (Debian).

Server is running a public IP on eth0.
Here is /etc/network/interfaces:

iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address  <my.public.i.p>
        netmask  255.255.255.248
        gateway  <my.public.gate.way
        post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/proxy_arp

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address  10.10.12.1
        netmask  255.255.255.0
        bridge_ports none
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0


        post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
        post-up   iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '10.10.12.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
        post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '10.10.12.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE


I have several VMs built running on bridge vmbr0
Here is one of their /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.12.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.12.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

If I use iptables and this:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 22100 -j DNAT --to 10.10.12.100:100


I can ssh to the VM from the outside.  I am going to be using CSF with Webmin, so I won't be using iptables, just csfpre.sh and csfpost.sh for nating rules.


I have the Apsis open source reverse proxy Pound installed on the server for accessing the Web gui of each VM. Each VM is running https already with /etc/apache2/sites-available/default having this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    RewriteEngine   on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*Aastra.*0
    RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
    RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}<https://%25%7bSERVER_NAME%7d> [L,R]
</VirtualHost>



I will use another proxy, Kamailio, for the SIP  traffic.  But Kamailio is not the subject of this post.

Regarding Pound and HTTPS to HTTPS connection to the back end servers, I am having trouble understanding and implementing the key portion of the directions, specifically relating to the .pem cert

my /etc/pound/pound.cfg has this:

# cat /etc/pound/pound.cfg
# My Pound Config
##
## see pound(8) for details


######################################################################
## global options:

User            "pounduser"
Group           "poundgroup"
#RootJail       "/chroot/pound"

## Logging: (goes to syslog by default)
##      0       no logging
##      1       normal
##      2       extended
##      3       Apache-style (common log format)
LogLevel        1

## check backend every X secs:
Alive           30

## use hardware-accelleration card supported by openssl(1):
#SSLEngine      "<hw>"

# poundctl control socket
Control "/var/run/pound/poundctl.socket"


######################################################################
## listen, redirect and ... to:

## redirect all http requests based on url to port 80 of VM

     ListenHTTP
        Address my.public.i.p
        Port    80
     End

     ListenHTTPS
        Address my.public.i.p
        Port 443
        Cert "/etc/pound/pound.pem"
     End

# Server 1 vmservername.mydomain.com
     #Service
                HeadRequire "Host: vmservername.mydomain.com"
        BackEnd
                Address 10.10.12.100
                Port    80
        End
     End

My question is about the .pem cert that pound.cfg is calling to.  I have certs for the machine already.  ProxMox gui runs on port 8006 and is https.  So I have things like
/etc/pve/pve-root-ca.pem
/etc/pve/nodes/vproxy/pve-ssl.pem

and a whole host of other .pem files such as

/etc/ssl/certs/ca.pem
/etc/ssl/certs/cacert.org.pem
/etc/ssl/certs/certSIGN_ROOT_CA.pem
/etc/ssl/certs/ePKI_Root_Certification_Authority.pem
/etc/ssl/certs/spi-ca-2003.pem
/etc/ssl/certs/spi-cacert-2008.pem


Question is, can I go to /etc/pound and generate a new cert for Pound?  How should I do this?  I don't want to mess up the https connection with Proxmox at https://my.public.i.p:8006

Pound would not work when I called to my pve .pem files.  And trying to cat from other .pem and .key and write into a /etc/pound/pound.pem does not work.   I get this when I try to restart Pound:

# service pound start
Starting reverse proxy and load balancer: poundstarting...
/etc/pound/pound.cfg line 43: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file failed - aborted
failed!


Thanks.