Where should vhosts file be?

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My domain is:
cirs.fyellin.com

I ran this command:
certbox --apache -d cirs.fyellin.com

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not find ssl_module; not disabling session tickets.
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Requesting a certificate for cirs.fyellin.com
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for cirs.fyellin.com
Cleaning up challenges
Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is currently needed for Certbot to prove to the CA that you control your domain. Please add
a virtual host for port 80.

My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.46

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
MacOs 11.1

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
N/A

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
Yyes

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): 1.14.0

I have modified the default httpd.conf by uncommenting:
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Inside http-vhosts.conf, I now have the following. Note that for now, I'm only trying to make a certificate for one of these. http:// to these web sites works fine. I get the same error even when I delete everything from the file except for cirs.fyellin.com

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName cirs.forward-scatter.com
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName cirs.forwardscatter.com
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName cirs.fyellin.com
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

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What does the output of sudo apachectl -S say? That would help confirm that Apache can see your virtual hosts even though certbot can't.

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My husband convinced me that I should be using HomeBrew Apache instead of the built in Apache. That seems to fix the problem.

So consider this closed.

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