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Immediately after installing and running Certbot to successfully create certificates, but BEFORE modifying the Apache configuration for https, my websites stopped working. PHP seems to be disabled now and Apache is no longer recognizing virtual hosts. Did installing Certbot cause some existing dll files to be overwritten, or were any environmental variables or registry values overwritten? Right now I can’t even restore the old existing websites. Help!
Without knowing the specific parameters you used for certbot, we’re working rather blind here.
It could be that apache was shut down due to using standalone.
Try running certbot rollback to restore your functionality. You can run it more than once to incrementally roll-back.
Chances are that your configuration may have started with some complexities that mixed poorly certbot’s changes. To my knowledge, certbot only makes configuration changes and does not modify your binaries and such.
Thanks for the reply. It seems that somehow around the time of the Certbot installation process, an Apache configuration file was inadvertently altered – unrelated to the Certbot install.
So this is a false alarm. Sorry. I would delete the whole thread if I knew how.
No worries. You don’t need to delete it, but if you want to you can click the three dots at the bottom of your initial post and then click the trash can.
