how to renew ssl certificates?

July 27, 2014 7.7k views
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tiago.pcodelico

I have a ssl certificate on a domain. Now, I need to renew the security keys.
My server is apache. I will replace the certificates, but now does not want to restart apache.

The error:

~# sudo service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server htcacheclean                                                                                                                                                                                             ...not running
[Sun Jul 27 21:47:38 2014] [warn] module cache_module is already loaded, skipping
[Sun Jul 27 21:47:38 2014] [warn] module cache_module is already loaded, skipping
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

The apache log error: http://pastie.org/private/wile3vp1wxn5m3pbdfjzw

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2 Answers
kamaln7 MOD July 27, 2014

Have you already renewed your SSL certificates? It looks like the private key was overwritten so now the certificate does not match it and Apache won't start as a result.

If you have generated a new CSR, the private key was most likely replaced as well, so the only option you have is to renew the SSL certificate as soon as possible.

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  • tiago.pcodelico July 27, 2014

    Hy @Kamal, thanks.

    I already have one .csr, I used it on certificate disabled.
    will generate a new one .crt through this .csr and try again.

    Can you tell me if it is just change files (crt) and reset the apache?

  • kamaln7 MOD July 30, 2014

    Yes, you just need to change the crt. It's better to generate a new CSR and Key to make sure they match.

tiago.pcodelico July 27, 2014

now, this is appear 

~# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server htcacheclean                                           ...not running
[Sun Jul 27 23:01:13 2014] [warn] module cache_module is already loaded, skipping
[Sun Jul 27 23:01:13 2014] [warn] module cache_module is already loaded, skipping
... directory /var/cache/apache2/mod_disk_cache does not exist!
                                                                         [fail]
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  • kamaln7 MOD July 30, 2014

    Have you recently modified any of Apache's config files? Try creating the directory:

    sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/apache2/mod_disk_cache
sudo chown -R www-data /var/cache/apache2/mod_disk_cache
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