Re: Failure to start apache2 after SSL cert update.

["Jack M. Nilles" <jnilles@xxxxxxxx>]

If I use: openssl x509 -noout -text -in WWW.SITENAME.COM.crt

I get a complete readout of the cert file with no obvious errors. The problem seems to be that apache even fails to start so i'll try the debug level next.

On 11 Jul 2020, at 5:30, Jim Albert <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/11/2020 6:10 AM, Holger Schramm wrote:

Am 11.07.20 um 00:32 schrieb Jack M. Nilles:

The apache error logs all quit at the point just before I restarted it. User and group permissions for the SSL files are all root, as before.

Jack

have you checked the files? sometime there are missing newlines in cert chains or other malformed things.

you can try to set a higher log level on apache to get more details. it should log sth in the error log.

There are various utilities to read private/public key files. For example, openssl on UNIX. I believe certutil for Windows.
If those utilities can read your key files then they should be valid format.

Jim



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