Monday, November 4, 2019

apache 2.2 - HTTPS is over 50 times slower then HTTP



I have a website that uses https to transmit a javascript file to the client. The website is getsimpleapps.com.



It turns out that this file is loading 52 times slower with https (20.08s - 29.08s) that with http (380ms).



The homepage of the site shares the same slowness as the javacript file.






I've recently switched over from dreamhost to linode, and hacked at getting SSL to work on the new server until it did. I didn't do any crazy configuring.



The linode is running Ubuntu 12.04 and the site is on top of a (LAMP) stack.



My question to the stack overflow community is: How do I go about fixing SSL & HTTPS on my server? I know that stack overflow is littered with questions regarding the slowness of HTTPS but no real solutions are given. A ubuntu tutorial or configuration guide would be ideal.






file : /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/getsimpleapps.com




     ServerAdmin admin@getsimpleapps.com
     ServerName getsimpleapps.com
     ServerAlias www.getsimpleapps.com
     DocumentRoot /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/public/
     ErrorLog /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/logs/error.log
     CustomLog /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/logs/access.log combined




     SSLEngine On
     #SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/www.getsimpleapps.com.crt
     #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/www.getsimpleapps.com.key
     #SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/comodo.crt
     SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dreamhost/dh.crt
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dreamhost/dh.key
     SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dreamhost/dh.cer


     ServerAdmin admin@getsimpleapps.com
     ServerName getsimpleapps.com
     ServerAlias www.getsimpleapps.com
     DocumentRoot /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/public/
     ErrorLog /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/logs/error.log
     CustomLog /srv/sites/getsimpleapps.com/logs/access.log combined






Curl from local workstation



thomas@workstation:~$ time curl -Iv https://getsimpleapps.com/
* About to connect() to getsimpleapps.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 50.116.58.18... connected
* Connected to getsimpleapps.com (50.116.58.18) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
*    subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; OU=Provided by New Dream Network, LLC; OU=DreamHost Basic SSL; CN=getsimpleapps.com

*    start date: 2012-02-23 00:00:00 GMT
*    expire date: 2013-02-22 23:59:59 GMT
*    subjectAltName: getsimpleapps.com matched
*    issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Comodo CA Limited; CN=PositiveSSL CA
*    SSL certificate verify ok.
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: getsimpleapps.com
> Accept: */*
> 

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:31:39 GMT
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:31:39 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2
< Set-Cookie: ci_session=a%3A5%3A%7Bs%3A10%3A%22session_id%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%2298c7e45da25e4aaf80f7a1e36ed4a006%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22ip_address%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%2250.75.209.154%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22user_agent%22%3Bs%3A81%3A%22curl%2F7.21.4+%28universal-apple-darwin11.0%29+libcurl%2F7.21.4+OpenSSL%2F0.9.8r+zlib%2F1.2.5%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%22last_activity%22%3Bi%3A1343939499%3Bs%3A9%3A%22user_data%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3B%7D80bf8ae5040fc47780ccd59f1fb8b267; expires=Thu, 02-Aug-2012 22:31:39 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ci_session=a%3A5%3A%7Bs%3A10%3A%22session_id%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%2298c7e45da25e4aaf80f7a1e36ed4a006%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22ip_address%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%2250.75.209.154%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22user_agent%22%3Bs%3A81%3A%22curl%2F7.21.4+%28universal-apple-darwin11.0%29+libcurl%2F7.21.4+OpenSSL%2F0.9.8r+zlib%2F1.2.5%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%22last_activity%22%3Bi%3A1343939499%3Bs%3A9%3A%22user_data%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3B%7D80bf8ae5040fc47780ccd59f1fb8b267; expires=Thu, 02-Aug-2012 22:31:39 GMT; path=/

< Vary: Accept-Encoding
Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Type: text/html
Content-Type: text/html

< 
* Connection #0 to host getsimpleapps.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):


real    0m29.078s
user    0m0.018s
sys 0m0.005s


Curl from linode server (via ssh)



thomas@vannevar:~$ time curl -Iv https://getsimpleapps.com/happy-ending/api/script.js?shop=holstee.myshopify.com
* About to connect() to getsimpleapps.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 50.116.58.18... connected

* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):

* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
*    subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; OU=Provided by New Dream Network, LLC; OU=DreamHost Basic SSL; CN=getsimpleapps.com
*    start date: 2012-02-23 00:00:00 GMT
*    expire date: 2013-02-22 23:59:59 GMT
*    subjectAltName: getsimpleapps.com matched
*    issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Comodo CA Limited; CN=PositiveSSL CA

*    SSL certificate verify ok.
> HEAD /happy-ending/api/script.js?shop=holstee.myshopify.com HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: getsimpleapps.com
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:43:30 GMT
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:43:30 GMT

< Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2
< Set-Cookie: ci_session=a%3A5%3A%7Bs%3A10%3A%22session_id%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%2204a54136cab08f9fdc5f082ebb8e739a%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22ip_address%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%2250.116.58.18%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22user_agent%22%3Bs%3A97%3A%22curl%2F7.22.0+%28i686-pc-linux-gnu%29+libcurl%2F7.22.0+OpenSSL%2F1.0.1+zlib%2F1.2.3.4+libidn%2F1.23+librtmp%2F2.3%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%22last_activity%22%3Bi%3A1343940210%3Bs%3A9%3A%22user_data%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3B%7De7d7b8e2ca69b34c531ba7472b4b21b7; expires=Thu, 02-Aug-2012 22:43:30 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ci_session=a%3A5%3A%7Bs%3A10%3A%22session_id%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%2204a54136cab08f9fdc5f082ebb8e739a%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22ip_address%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%2250.116.58.18%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22user_agent%22%3Bs%3A97%3A%22curl%2F7.22.0+%28i686-pc-linux-gnu%29+libcurl%2F7.22.0+OpenSSL%2F1.0.1+zlib%2F1.2.3.4+libidn%2F1.23+librtmp%2F2.3%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%22last_activity%22%3Bi%3A1343940210%3Bs%3A9%3A%22user_data%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3B%7De7d7b8e2ca69b34c531ba7472b4b21b7; expires=Thu, 02-Aug-2012 22:43:30 GMT; path=/
< Content-Type: text/javascript
Content-Type: text/javascript
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end


< 
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):

real    0m25.991s
user    0m0.015s
sys 0m0.022s

Answer



Turns out my issue was my keys were from another server. I needed to get a new certificate and set it up with new keys.



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