Apache 2.4.9 fails after enabling ssl module and setting up ssl certificate

Question

Apache throws the following errors after attempting to set up ssl certificates:

[ssl:emerg] [pid 30907] AH02572: Failed to configure at least one certificate and         


        

Answer 1

I encountered this just today after upgrading to MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.6. My virtual hosts with SSL were working fine before the upgrade. Then today, when I tried to start up my Apache web server, I got this error:

[Fri Jul 20 10:51:06.021778 2018] [ssl:emerg] [pid 2236] AH02572: Failed to configure at least one certificate and key for work.localweb.com:80
[Fri Jul 20 10:51:06.022024 2018] [ssl:emerg] [pid 2236] SSL Library Error: error:140A80B1:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_check_private_key:no certificate assigned
[Fri Jul 20 10:51:06.022037 2018] [ssl:emerg] [pid 2236] AH02312: Fatal error initialising mod_ssl, exiting.
AH00016: Configuration Failed

Check my apache version and it is now 2.4.33. Apparently in this version you will need to put the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile entries in the virtual host itself. So, I copied the entries from extra/httpd-ssl.conf and put it in every SSL virtual host that I had configured.

  ServerAdmin me@mymail.com
  ServerName work.localweb.com
  SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/server.crt"
  SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/server.key"
  ......

Then the start up works again.