Httpd not running after installation

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Hello,

I have a problem with the installation of Let’s Encrypt on my server. I have Apache and CentOS6.

I followed the guide at https://certbot.eff.org/#centosrhel6-apache and couldn’t continue since my apache server stopped working. When I run

./certbot-auto --apache

I get the following error:

Error while running apachectl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - We were unable to install your certificate, however, we
   successfully restored your server to its prior configuration.

I have controlled the apache log errors and I found the following:

[warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `dummy' does NOT match server name!?

It seems then that there’s a mistake in the hostname for the certificate. I don’t know what that dummy is and don’t know either how to change it to my hostname. I noticed though that I have files on my /etc/letsencrypt/ folder, I even have the certificates inside the /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.mydomain.com/ folder.

I cannot start apache as it fails. My website is currently down.

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Some help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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A certificate with the CN “dummy” will not have been installed by Let’s Encrypt, so probably you’ve got some “rogue” Apache configuration file/directive pointing to some self-signed certificate.

This also probably isn’t caused by Let’s Encrypt? Did everything work before?

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Hi Osiris, thank you for the reply.
The website was functioning before but we had no certificate. We just did a migration to this server and the old certificate was lost, so we were installing a new one. Maybe this is were the dummy comes from.
The website though was working with a working from the browser.
Do you know what should I do? I must admit am a bit lost.

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