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by **QuietLeni** » 10. March 2020 23:37

I have a simple website that needs to serve a single XML file, using SSL. There is a process that updates the XML file each night for people to poll it during the day.

The Server.xml file looks like this:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:443>
ServerAdmin networks@website.uri
ServerName website.uri
ServerAlias website.uri
ServerAlias 192.168.20.6
DocumentRoot /var/www/website.uri/html
ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/var/www/website.uri/cgi-bin/"
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/localcerts/apache.key
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/localcerts/apache.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/localcerts/apache.crt
<Directory /var/www/website.uri/html>
AddType text/xml "xml"
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/website.uri/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

I would like to put this file called, "feed.xml" into the /var/www/website.uri/html directory and for the following curl to return the contents of the XML:

curl -k https://website.uri/html/feed.xml

However, when I place the feed.xml into the /var/www/website.uri/html directory, I get the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator at
networks@website.uri to inform them of the time this error occurred,
and the actions you performed just before this error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 443</address>
</body></html>

I am fed up of searching for "how to serve an XML file in Apache" and getting Mr Google tell me about anything but what I want about the server.xml.

What am I doing wrong, please?

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