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Hi,

I’m trying to set up multiple domains on a single droplet. I have followed the various articles available on DO on setting up multiple vhosts and how to install a lets encrypt certificate. The certificate for the first domain installed fine, but when I try and install a certificate for the second domain, I get the following message;

Could not reverse map the HTTPS VirtualHost to the original

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Unable to install the certificate
Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.net/fullchain.pem Your key file has been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.net/privkey.pem Your cert will expire on 2018-10-28. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again with the “certonly” option. To non-interactively renew all of your certificates, run “certbot renew”
Some rewrite rules copied from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mydomain.net.conf were disabled in the vhost for your HTTPS site located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.net-le-ssl.conf because they have the potential to create redirection loops.

I cannot find much information on the web and am looking for someone to point out where I’ve gone wrong.

Thanks,

Chris

Answer 1

lampreyOne August 3, 2018

Did you have any rewrite rules on your second domain before you created the ssl key?
Maybe some redirect rules that specifically referred to http:// ?

Sounds like letsencrypt commented out some redirect rules on your https site, I think those would be the first one to look at.

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ttodua May 11, 2019

thank you! I had “htaccess” redirection, so remove that and it completed now, and returned that file back then.
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ttodua May 11, 2019

thank you! I had “htaccess” redirection, so remove that and it completed now, and returned that file back then.
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admin080acfd7cd3ea429728fb August 3, 2018

I haven’t uploaded anything to the second site yet except an index.html file to allow me to see when it’s working.

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ttodua October 18, 2018

see answer here - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/why-do-i-get-this-could-not-reverse-map-the-https-virtualhost-to-the-original-message-when-i-try-to-install-an-ssl

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80r15 September 5, 2019

The perfect template. Try this. Worked for me after days of looking for solution.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

<Directory /var/www/html/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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