I ran this command as a su: chmod +rwx on this file snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/tests/testdata/centos7_apache/apache/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
It produced this output: chmod: changing permissions of 'httpd.conf': Read-only file system
My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.57 (Debian)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): debian 12
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: OVH
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
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 2.9.0
I need to change this file but have difficulties to do it, does anyone know how to do it ?
Can you explain exactly why you're trying to change a file that looks to be used by internal Certbot tests? Especially since it's in a "centos" folder and you're running Debian? I suspect that it isn't the httpd.conf that you're really looking for.
Hi peter,
thank you for your fast reply
We are trying to update the "AllowOverride" from the httpd.conf file - changing "none" to "All" in order for our website to run its .htaccess file
I'm pretty sure that changing the httpd.conf within certbot's internal test files won't help you. You need to find the actual httpd.conf that your web server is using.
When looking for other "httpd.conf" files in our VM, the 2 only path that we have are those one : /snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/tests/testdata/centos7_apache/apache/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
and /snap/certbot/3643/lib/python3.8/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/tests/testdata/gentoo_apache/apache/apache2/httpd.conf
However the "apache2" one do not contain a row with "AllowOverride", that's why I was looking for editing the "httpd/conf" one
Those files are indeed from internally used testdata which are NOT used in the actual usage of Certbot;
Certbot does not NOT use AllowOverride for other things than those testdata files (which were not important to begin with, see the point above); thus: you should not look at Certbot to try to fix your problem with regard to AllowOverride.
I suggest you submit your problem to a different community such as the Debian or Apache support channels, because this is not Certbot nor Let's Encrypt related.
I found the solution to my problem and it was not certbot related in fact.
Thank you for your answer and thank you Peter for your replies
have a great day