Apache2 won't start snakeoil ssl doesn't exist

Installation finished successfully. Restarted the server, and couldn’t access any page. When checked if apache is up, it turned out it wasn’t.

Have a look at the screenshot.

I tested it on multiple server instances of varying resources, and it was same on all of them.

2017-08-31_03-30-51

I’ve been having the same error for the past couple days, I cannot access my server via the IP address or the domain I paired by using Lets Encrypt. The server can still be accessed via ssh and pinged via IP.

I updated ca-certificates-mono beforehand which is what I think caused this?

I cannot run Letsencrypt as it comes up with an error.

Is there a Quickbox command to re-run SSL cert building?

Managed to fix it by re-making the SSL certs, commands if anyone needs in future:

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/certs/new.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/new.crt

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl.conf

Change these two lines to match the “new” named certs:

SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/OLD_ONES.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/OLD_ONES.key

SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/new.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/new.key

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