By seacrest75
I am having problems getting SSL going on the server I followed the following instructions here for Apache
and my SSL certificate isn’t working here is my vitutal host configuration
# Added to mitigate CVE-2017-8295 vulnerability
UseCanonicalName On
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName $domain
ServerAlias www.$domain
Redirect permanent / https://abovepath.ca
SSLEngine on
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/4f48e133ed38192c.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /root/abovepath.ca.key
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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Hello,
I believe that Apache might not have access to the /root/ directory. So Apache is failing to read the key.
I would recommend moving your key to /etc/ssl/ for example and then testing this again.
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby
This is what the issue was. You need to be in the following folder when a new droplet is created.
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
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