Apache config. check reports ssl error

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I’m on Apache 2.4, Amazon Linux2 with cerbot 0.31.0-2.el7 installed.

Everything appears to be running fine in terms of ssl, but I just did a check of my Apache configuration and it reported an SSL error:

AH00526: Syntax error on line 106 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem' does not exist or is empty

I checked and that .pem file does exist on the server, and when I opened the file I saw that it’s not empty. The first line is “-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----” followed by random characters and closing with “-----END CERTIFICATE-----”. There’s a second certificate entry below the first with the same exact format.

I’m not exactly clear what needs to be fixed here. Why is Apache throwing this error?

Thanks.

#2

Sorry, my bad–I was not logged in as root when checking config. and forgot the “sudo”–so didn’t have permission to enter that directory.

Problem solved.

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