My domain is: not relevant
I ran this command: certbot-auto
It produced this output: It ran as expected
My web server is (include version): Apache 2.4.18
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: self
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no
certbot-auto worked flawlessly except it broke the Owncloud installation.
Had to revert to previous snapshot…
So the question is: How can I get certbot-auto installed without breaking Owncloud?
I don’t use apache installer with certbot-auto because I don’t want to mess my conf files so I don’t know how certbot-auto modifies your conf files to break the owncloud conf.
What I do is to use an Alias in Apache conf and certbot-auto using webroot authenticator and it works pretty well with my owncloud installation.
1.- Add an Alias directive to your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (I don’t know if Ubuntu uses another name for this conf file)
Alias "/.well-known/acme-challenge" "/var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge"
2.- Issue the certificate for your domain.
certbot-auto certonly -a webroot -w /var/www/letsencrypt -d yourdomain.tld
3.- Create the right apache ssl conf for your domain.
I’m not certain what break nor where.
So there might be modifications to the apache2.conf file that affect owncloud.
But the problem I think is mainly in that both use python/php and certbot-auto steps over some setting owncloud can’t recover from.
After certbot-auto first run and it installs all it’s dependencies, owncloud doesn’t show any dependency problems but it just fails to function.
I will try to recreate this in more of a lab environment and get back with any findings…
The problem was with the newly created 000-default-le-ssl.conf file; which overlapped with the 000-default.conf file for port 443.
I guess certbot/certbot-auto likes port 80 and port 443 to be in separate vhost files.
Now 000-default.conf only serves port 80
and 000-default-le-ssl.conf only serves port 443
