CUPS: 426 – Upgrade Required

As I was installing my printer on my Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper LTS server with CUPS I noticed the following error:

426 Upgrade Required

After some research I came to the conclusion that CUPS, by default, tries to use SSL whenever possible. So, with this 426 error, you are redirected to the SSL domain. Chances are, you haven’t configured SSL properly, if at all.

In my case, I didn’t want to configure SSL. To get rid of this problem, the key lies in editing your configuration files ( /etc/cups/cupsd.conf ) and adding the following line:

DefaultEncryption Never

There are several options, Never, IfRequired and Required. By setting this to Never, SSL will never be enforced. Just restart your CUPS server with

$ /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

and you’re good to go.

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10 Comments so far

  1. Oscar on January 23rd, 2007

    hi,
    you’ve got a little mistake, the configuration file to edit is /etc/init.d/cupsd.conf, not /etc/init.d/cupd.conf.

    thanks for the trick!

  2. Ariejan on January 23rd, 2007

    @Oscar: Thanks. I’ve updated the post.

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  4. lex luthor on October 24th, 2007

    Great…Thanks.

  5. asmith on October 25th, 2007

    hi,
    you’ve got a little mistake, the configuration file to edit is /etc/init.d/cupsd.conf, not /etc/init.d/cupd.conf.
    thanks for the trick!

    as a matter of fact, the conf file of Cups it’s located at /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

    good information though.

  6. sequethin on November 13th, 2007

    THANK YOU! this was driving me nuts while trying to configure cups on my zaurus (running openbsd where the config file requires encryption by default).

  7. Alex J on December 10th, 2007

    Thanks for the fix. I did not know what to do. :-)
    This just proves that it IS important to post seemingly trivial bits of information on the net.

  8. Norio on May 15th, 2008

    Great info! Helped me big time! Thanks :)

  9. Krzysztof on June 15th, 2008

    Thanks a lot! This did the trick, and my printer is now served over the network by CUPS! :) Yikes!

  10. dani3L on June 26th, 2009

    Hi man! Thanks a lot! :) That’s works!

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