Apache Won't Start after Adding SSL Certificates

Question

Hello so here is the problem

I have generated CSR on CentOS and purchased SSL on Comodo.

I have added following lines to ssl.conf

ServerName mydomain.com 
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mydomain.key
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mydomain.crt
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mydomainCA.crt

and following lines to httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName thedomain.com
        Redirect "/" "https://thedomain.com/"
</VirtualHost>

After this when I do systemctl restart httpd it gives me following error:

Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl

-xe" for details.

and when I check journalctl -xe for details this is what it reads:

-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has finished start-up -- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- Unit httpd.service has finished starting up.

-- The start-up result is done. Nov 24 18:36:01 MyWay polkitd[568]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6639:684652621 (system bus name :1.4409, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale e Nov 24 18:36:04 MyWay sshd[6652]: Invalid user oracle from 80.241.211.237 port 54600 Nov 24 18:36:04 MyWay sshd[6652]: input_userauth_request: invalid user oracle [preauth] Nov 24 18:36:04 MyWay sshd[6652]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown Nov 24 18:36:04 MyWay sshd[6652]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=vmi306916.contaboserver.net Nov 24 18:36:06 MyWay sshd[6652]: Failed password for invalid user oracle from 80.241.211.237 port 54600 ssh2 Nov 24 18:36:06 MyWay sshd[6652]: Received disconnect from 80.241.211.237 port 54600:11: Normal Shutdown, Thank you for playing [preauth] Nov 24 18:36:06 MyWay sshd[6652]: Disconnected from 80.241.211.237 port 54600 [preauth] Nov 24 18:36:16 MyWay sshd[6651]: Received disconnect from 112.85.42.94 port 31545:11: [preauth] Nov 24 18:36:16 MyWay sshd[6651]: Disconnected from 112.85.42.94 port 31545 [preauth] Nov 24 18:36:18 MyWay polkitd[568]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6655:684654361 (system bus name :1.4410 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedes Nov 24 18:36:18 MyWay systemd[1]: Stopping The Apache HTTP Server... -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd

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-- Unit httpd.service has begun shutting down. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: Stopped The Apache HTTP Server. -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has finished shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd

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-- Unit httpd.service has finished shutting down. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd

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-- Unit httpd.service has begun starting up. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay kill[6667]: kill: cannot find process "" Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server. -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd

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-- Unit httpd.service has failed.

-- The result is failed. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay systemd[1]: httpd.service failed. Nov 24 18:36:19 MyWay polkitd[568]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6655:684654361 (system bus name :1.4410, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale e [

So I have checked lot os solutions but this problems still exists, please note that when I comment out all changes in httpd.conf and ssl.conf apache starts working back normally.

Thanks all in advance

Answer 1

SOLVED

Renaming file to PEM helped the case, besides this I came across some other issues that were causing error ( looking ata apache logs helped me to solv them )

1. Memory for apache was full so I had to increase it.

2. I had duplicated SSLCertificateKeyFile in the ssl.conf file and I commented out the default file link.