So I have been following instructions on setting up Client Certificate Authentication in Apache2 w/ mod_ssl. This is solely for the purpose of testing an application against CAA, not for any sort of production use.

So far I've followed http://www.impetus.us/~rjmooney/projects/misc/clientcertauth.html for advice on generating my CA, server, and client encryption information. I've put all three of them into /etc/ssl/ca/private. I've setup the following additional directives in my default_ssl site file:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
...
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/ca/private/server.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/ca/private/server.key
    SSLVerifyClient require
    SSLVerifyDepth 2

    SSLCACertificatePath /etc/ssl/ca/private
    SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/ca/private/ca.crt
    <Location />
            SSLRequireSSL
            SSLVerifyClient require
            SSLVerifyDepth 2
    </Location>
    <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
            SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </FilesMatch>
    <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
            SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Directory>
...
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

I've install the p12 file into Chrome, but when I go to visit https://localhost, I get the following errors

Chrome: Error 107 (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR): SSL protocol error.

Apache: Certificate Verification: Error (18): self signed certificate

If I had to guess, one of my directives is not setup right to load and verify the p12 w/ my self created CA. But I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Would anyone have more experience here who could point me in the right direction?