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Apache httpd won't start.

B

boxlocks

Guest
Running: Plesk for Linux, Ver. 9.2.3, Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5, 64Bit

I overwrote the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.pem

Apache won't start. Error logs say the server name is mismatched.

Is there anyway to rebuild this file or create a new one?

Logs:
/var/log/httpd/error_log
Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `trinity.domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:50:09 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `domain.com' does NOT match server name!?

/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log
[Fri Sep 16 23:51:43 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Fri Sep 16 23:51:43 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server name!?
[Fri Sep 16 23:51:43 2011] [error] Unable to configure RSA server private key
[Fri Sep 16 23:51:43 2011] [error] SSL Library Error: 185073780 error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch




Thank you.
 
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Try something like this


openssl genrsa 1024 > host.key
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 -key host.key > host.cert
cat host.cert host.key > httpd.pem

Now the httpd.pem should be placed in '/etc/httpd/conf' and the plesk services restarted.

/etc/init.d/psa stopall
/etc/init.d/psa startall
 
in logs I dont see critical errors, that's just warnings. it would be better if you show us traceview of start process: sh -x /etc/init.d/httpd start
 
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