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Asked: 2015-12-19 13:06:35 +0800 CST

Migrating from Apache 2.2 to 2.4, ssl.conf is ignored

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I'm rolling out a test installation of EL7 with Apache 2.4. I copied my existing /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to the new system, set up selinux, verified all the cert paths were kosher and systemctl httpd start started the service. Apache is running error free.

The problem is that my ssl.conf file is ignored. I'm being shown the default Apache page using

I tried moving /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/ (first removing the existing 00-ssl.conf file), with the same result.

Where am I getting it wrong?

Edit 1 The error log shows this: 

AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /www/virtualhosts/example.com

Where my ssl config has this: 

DocumentRoot /www/virtualhosts/example.com

and 

ll /www/virtualhosts/example.com
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 21 Dec 18 14:32 index.php

index.php consists of:

<p>Hello World

I'm at a loss.

apache-2.4

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Got it. Apache 2.4 has additional security features. I needed to add this to /etc/httpd/conf/http.conf and restart the service.

    <Directory "/www/virtualhosts/example.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

    I can haz website.

    Also, I moved the default 00-ssl.conf file back in place (/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/), and moved ssl.conf back to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.

    Restarted the service and all is still well.

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