Server aborted the SSL handshake error - node.js

Question

I can't get a server running behind HTTPS working node.js. My goal is to get a Hapi server running with a self-signed certificate.
This was how I generated my self-signed certificate:
openssl genrsa -out key.pem
openssl req -new -key key.pem -out csr.pem
openssl x509 -req -days 9999 -in csr.pem -signkey key.pem -out cert.pem
rm csr.pem
This is how I start the server in Hapi:
server.connection({
port: 9920,
tls: {
key: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, './cert/key.pem')),
cert: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, './cert/cert.pem')),
rejectUnauthorized: false
},
routes: {
cors: true
}
});
In order to verify it wasn't a Hapi only issue, I verified that this also doesn't work in vanilla node.js:
var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');
var options = {
key: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, './cert/key.pem')),
cert: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, './cert/cert.pem')),
rejectUnauthorized: false
};
var a = https.createServer(options, function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200);
res.end("hello world\n");
}).listen(8000);
Both of these servers throw the same error in curl:
$ curl -kiv https://localhost:9920
* Rebuilt URL to: https://localhost:9920/
* Trying ::1...
* connect to ::1 port 9920 failed: Connection refused
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9920 (#0)
* Server aborted the SSL handshake
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) Server aborted the SSL handshake
Versions:
node: v4.1.1
npm: 3.4.0
What's going on?

Answer 1

Not an expert on ssl as not used it much but if you check this code the options set is different to what you have configured.
https://github.com/hapijs/university/blob/master/lib/config.js#L6
The key and cert may have not been created correctly, check these docs to ensure you are using methods properly hapi & node