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Installed LetsEncrypt and redirects to https work but web pages are no longer reachable

Posted on August 1, 2017

I installed Let’s Encrypt per the following tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

Works to require a redirect to https but I can no longer reach the index.html web page or any other page on the site. I deleted the lines added by let’s encrypt to the .conf file for my site and now the site is reachable. I was trying to setup a password protection of the site per the following tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-16-04

But instead of receiving a prompt for a username and password, I just received the following message in Google Chrome (and also could not reach pages in IE):


Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at mysitename.com Port 443


the “mysitename.com” is just edited to not include my actual domain.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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