Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Smoothwall 3.0 Express web GUI not working after update

I recently applied a set of updates to a local Smoothwall Express 3.0 box I have here. Everything is still working fine, but the web GUI stopped working completely. Both Firefox and IE seem caught in a loop trying to load the page, and it effects both http and https interfaces. After much research (it would've been quicker to just reinstalled Smoothwall from scratch!) it turns out there is a problem in update7 with the SSL handling.

To resolve the problem, log into your smoothwall SSH console, and delete the following files then reboot the system. After this, the web GUI should work:
  • /var/log/httpd/ssl_scache.dir
  • /var/log/httpd/ssl_scache.pag