Description of problem:

In some scenarios, after installation the user sees a 404 when they should see the screen to create initial user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090507.1-i386-embedded-oracle.iso

How reproducible:

Unclear, this is only surfacing for some installations but does not happen for all. It has also surfaced on a Fedora 10 installation of Spacewalk from the 0.6 devel repo. Suspect the failed activation may be the cause.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Satellite with a 5.3 cert, but attempt to activate against hosted.
2. Repeat with correct activation against webqa.
  
Actual results:

Install completes, but attempting to visit the web UI results in a 404. 


Expected results:

Create first user screen.

Additional info:

When this occurs you will see errors in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log for all url's starting with /rhn/ or /rpc/, indicating that the Apache RewriteEngine is not working properly.

The difference between a working install and a not working install appears to be the absence of these lines from the end of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
SSLProxyEngine on

These are normally located inside the VirtualHost configuration, just before the tag is closed.

Not sure if these lines are pre-existing or something we add during the stage of the installer when we prompt for modification of ssl.conf. 

The failed Satellite activation is our best guess so far for a reproducer, something causing the second run to not have ssl.conf properly set up.