Isponfig autorenew back to selfsigned

I did a renew (./certbot-auto --domains xxx.oliware.eu)
It created a new cert (like this : cert.pem -> …/…/archive/xxx.oliware.eu/cert7.pem)
I did a restart of httpd, but now my old selfsigned certificate is back in place.

What happened ?

Hi @oliware

checking your domain via CT-Log:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates?cert_search_auth=&cert_search_cert=&cert_search=include_expired:true;include_subdomains:true;domain:oliware.eu&lu=cert_search

There is an active certificate home.oliware.eu

Checking this domain there is no certificate, but a special error:


Domainname Http-Status redirect Sec. G
http://home.oliware.eu/
213.219.158.213 -14 10.023 T
Timeout - The operation has timed out
https://home.oliware.eu/
213.219.158.213 -4 0.370 W
SendFailure - The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format.
http://home.oliware.eu:443/
213.219.158.213 403 0.077 A
Forbidden

The tool checks first https / port 443. But if there is this special error "unexpected packet format" it's an indicator that you send http over port 443.

So http://home.oliware.eu:443/ - upps, sends a Forbidden, a normal http status.

So it looks that your https - configuration is missing.

Thanks for your answer.
It’s not for that domain, home.oliware.eu is on another server.
it’s about nero.oliware.eu (port 8080), it used to work, but not anymore.
I also enabled the ‘skip letsencrypt check’ in the ispconfig admin as suggested by some people.

There is a new certificate, created today.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates?cert_search_auth=&cert_search_cert=&cert_search=include_expired:false;include_subdomains:false;domain:nero.oliware.eu&lu=cert_search

So this part works.

Nero has an

Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.4.16 mod_python/3.5.0- Python/2.7.5

Is there an admin panel which manages the Apache?

indeed, I can even find the certificates here:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 16 21:08 /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/fullchain.pem -> …/…/archive/nero.oliware.eu/fullchain7.pem

The correct entries are in the .vhost file as well, so I don’t get it why it is still showing me the selfsigned certificate.

There may be a standard 443 port configuration.

So your special vHost doesn't work. And if you have an admin panel, perhaps share a screenshot. It's possible that you must add the certificate to the vHost.

No ssl config of the ispconfig panel itself.

Here is the vhost:

Listen 8080
NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost _default_:8080>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  <Directory /var/www/ispconfig/>
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
      SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
  </Directory>
  <Directory /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web/>
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
      SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
  </Directory>

  <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/ispconfig/
    SuexecUserGroup ispconfig ispconfig
    <Directory /var/www/ispconfig/>
      Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews +ExecCGI
      AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes Limit Options FileInfo
      <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        SetHandler fcgid-script
      </FilesMatch>
      FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/ispconfig/.php-fcgi-starter .php
            Require all granted
          </Directory>
    IPCCommTimeout  7200
    MaxRequestLen 15728640
  </IfModule>

  <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
    DocumentRoot /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web/
    AssignUserId ispconfig ispconfig
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    <Directory /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web>
      # php_admin_value open_basedir "/usr/local/ispconfig/interface:/usr/share:/tmp"
      Options +FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
            Require all granted
            php_value magic_quotes_gpc        0
    </Directory>
  </IfModule>

  # ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
  # CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
  ServerSignature Off

  <IfModule mod_security2.c>
    SecRuleEngine Off
  </IfModule>

  # SSL Configuration
  SSLEngine On
    SSLProtocol All -SSLv3
  #SSLCACertificateFile /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/ssl/ispserver.bundle

    SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS
  SSLHonorCipherOrder On
    
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header always add Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000"
	RequestHeader unset Proxy early
  </IfModule>

        SSLUseStapling On
SSLStaplingResponderTimeout 5
SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors Off
  ServerName nero.oliware.eu
  Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/privkey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/chain.pem
  </VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
  SSLStaplingCache shmcb:/var/run/ocsp(128000)
</IfModule>

<Directory /var/www/php-cgi-scripts>
  AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
  </Directory>

<Directory /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts>
  AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
  </Directory>

Loading https://nero.oliware.eu/ … there is an apache testing page - Testing 123…

Loading https://nero.oliware.eu:8080/ … there is a redirect to /login/ with the ispconfig - login.

So you have two different https sites running.

Both have the wrong self signed certificate, expired 6. Juni 2017, 17:16:48 GMT.

So you must have a second configuration which is used.

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I’ve changed the standard ssl.conf with the new certificate as well, but this file wasn’t touched since 1 year, so don’t know why it uses the certificate from there. The other vhosts and certificates are working find.

Now all works. I see the new Letsencrypt certificate.

Then that content must be what is being served.
The document root in ssl.conf aligns with what you used elsewhere?
i.e. You may be getting the correct results - but for the wrong reason.
"Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then."

I'd really like to see both configs...

the .vhost setting of the admin panel is up here somewhere, the ssl.conf is here:

#
# When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the 
# the HTTPS port in addition.
#
Listen 443 https

##
##  SSL Global Context
##
##  All SSL configuration in this context applies both to
##  the main server and all SSL-enabled virtual hosts.
##

#   Pass Phrase Dialog:
#   Configure the pass phrase gathering process.
#   The filtering dialog program (`builtin' is a internal
#   terminal dialog) has to provide the pass phrase on stdout.
SSLPassPhraseDialog exec:/usr/libexec/httpd-ssl-pass-dialog

#   Inter-Process Session Cache:
#   Configure the SSL Session Cache: First the mechanism 
#   to use and second the expiring timeout (in seconds).
SSLSessionCache         shmcb:/run/httpd/sslcache(512000)
SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300

#   Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG):
#   Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the 
#   SSL library. The seed data should be of good random quality.
#   WARNING! On some platforms /dev/random blocks if not enough entropy
#   is available. This means you then cannot use the /dev/random device
#   because it would lead to very long connection times (as long as
#   it requires to make more entropy available). But usually those
#   platforms additionally provide a /dev/urandom device which doesn't
#   block. So, if available, use this one instead. Read the mod_ssl User
#   Manual for more details.
SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom  256
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
#SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/random  512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/random  512
#SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 512

#
# Use "SSLCryptoDevice" to enable any supported hardware
# accelerators. Use "openssl engine -v" to list supported
# engine names.  NOTE: If you enable an accelerator and the
# server does not start, consult the error logs and ensure
# your accelerator is functioning properly. 
#
SSLCryptoDevice builtin
#SSLCryptoDevice ubsec

##
## SSL Virtual Host Context
##

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host, inherited from global configuration
#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
#ServerName www.example.com:443

# Use separate log files for the SSL virtual host; note that LogLevel
# is not inherited from httpd.conf.
ErrorLog logs/ssl_error_log
TransferLog logs/ssl_access_log
LogLevel warn

#   SSL Engine Switch:
#   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
SSLEngine on

#   SSL Protocol support:
# List the enable protocol levels with which clients will be able to
# connect.  Disable SSLv2 access by default:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3

#   SSL Cipher Suite:
#   List the ciphers that the client is permitted to negotiate.
#   See the mod_ssl documentation for a complete list.
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!SEED:!IDEA

#   Speed-optimized SSL Cipher configuration:
#   If speed is your main concern (on busy HTTPS servers e.g.),
#   you might want to force clients to specific, performance
#   optimized ciphers. In this case, prepend those ciphers
#   to the SSLCipherSuite list, and enable SSLHonorCipherOrder.
#   Caveat: by giving precedence to RC4-SHA and AES128-SHA
#   (as in the example below), most connections will no longer
#   have perfect forward secrecy - if the server's key is
#   compromised, captures of past or future traffic must be
#   considered compromised, too.
#SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:AES128-SHA:HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5
#SSLHonorCipherOrder on 

#   Server Certificate:
# Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate.  If
# the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a
# pass phrase.  Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again.  A new
# certificate can be generated using the genkey(1) command.
#SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/privkey.pem
#SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nero.oliware.eu/chain.pem


#   Server Private Key:
#   If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this
#   directive to point at the key file.  Keep in mind that if
#   you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure
#   both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.)
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key

#   Server Certificate Chain:
#   Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the
#   concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the
#   certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively
#   the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile
#   when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server
#   certificate for convinience.
#SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/server-chain.crt

#   Certificate Authority (CA):
#   Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA
#   certificates for client authentication or alternatively one
#   huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)
#SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

#   Client Authentication (Type):
#   Client certificate verification type and depth.  Types are
#   none, optional, require and optional_no_ca.  Depth is a
#   number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate
#   issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.
#SSLVerifyClient require
#SSLVerifyDepth  10

#   Access Control:
#   With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based
#   on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server
#   variable checks and other lookup directives.  The syntax is a
#   mixture between C and Perl.  See the mod_ssl documentation
#   for more details.
#<Location />
#SSLRequire (    %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \
#            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq "Snake Oil, Ltd." \
#            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {"Staff", "CA", "Dev"} \
#            and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \
#            and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20       ) \
#           or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192\.76\.162\.[0-9]+$/
#</Location>

#   SSL Engine Options:
#   Set various options for the SSL engine.
#   o FakeBasicAuth:
#     Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation.  This means that
#     the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control.  The
#     user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate.
#     Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user
#     file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'.
#   o ExportCertData:
#     This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and
#     SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the
#     server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client
#     authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates
#     into CGI scripts.
#   o StdEnvVars:
#     This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables.
#     Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,
#     because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually
#     useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the
#     exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.
#   o StrictRequire:
#     This denies access when "SSLRequireSSL" or "SSLRequire" applied even
#     under a "Satisfy any" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied
#     and no other module can change it.
#   o OptRenegotiate:
#     This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL
#     directives are used in per-directory context. 
#SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
<Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$">
    SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Files>
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
    SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>

#   SSL Protocol Adjustments:
#   The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown
#   approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for
#   the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown
#   approach you can use one of the following variables:
#   o ssl-unclean-shutdown:
#     This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no
#     SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received.  This violates
#     the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use
#     this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where
#     mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.
#   o ssl-accurate-shutdown:
#     This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a
#     SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify
#     alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in
#     practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use
#     this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation
#     works correctly. 
#   Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP
#   keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable
#   keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this.
#   Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround
#   their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and
#   "force-response-1.0" for this.
BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-5]" \
         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

#   Per-Server Logging:
#   The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a
#   compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis.
CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
          "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

</VirtualHost>

From: ssl.conf
Those lines should not be commented out.
Either leave their values as is or change them to something more fitting; But leave them in use.
#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
#ServerName www.example.com:443
As it stands there, even if the default matches one of the names in the cert, there is no document root.
This would not know what to serve…

The ssl.conf file is generally confusing.
I think it should be two files:
One file with the global SSL config settings (top part) - ssl.conf
Another file with the “default vhost SSL config” (bottom part) - default-ssl.vhost.conf
Maybe it would be better understood and modified that way.

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