It seemed like the auto-renewal process for ssl from LetsEncrypt is not supported yet for nginx, at least according to this article on its publication date:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04 My needs are really simple and I wanted to go with whichever would be simpler to setup. On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Dr James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > Depends on your backends - nginx is good if it is serving primarily static > files and or proxying back to quick responding backends. It seems to be > less well suited to slower/heavier backends. Apache always seems to work - > slower mind you - but always seems to work... So if reliability is your > requirement then nginx may be a problem! > > > > On 17/08/2016 19:41, Erik Dobák wrote: > >> why did not you use nginx anyway? should be faster and modern. did not >> have the chance to try that yet myself. still using apache everywhere. >> >> On 17 August 2016 at 03:18, R <bittransfer2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ugh sorry, I had a test installation of nginx on the machine, which was >>> not >>> fully removed after doing "apt-get remove". Looks like it would still >>> start >>> up somehow. After I purged nginx, then apache2 started ok after reboot. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:57 PM, R <bittransfer2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, this is everything from cat /var/log/apache2/error.log: >>>> >>>> [Mon Aug 15 13:42:17.138117 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming >>>> normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 13:42:17.138282 2016] [core:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:14.003814 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00493: SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart >>>> AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/lib/letsencrypt/tls_sni_01_page/] >>>> does not exist >>>> AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully >>>> qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive >>>> globally to suppress this message >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:14.054552 2016] [ssl:warn] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH01906:x:0 server certificate is a CA certificate >>>> (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?) >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:14.054736 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips >>>> configured -- resuming normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:14.054747 2016] [core:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:20.854353 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00493: SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart >>>> AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully >>>> qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive >>>> globally to suppress this message >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:20.865056 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming >>>> normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:20.865076 2016] [core:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:23.807722 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00493: SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart >>>> AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully >>>> qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive >>>> globally to suppress this message >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:23.840209 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips >>>> configured -- resuming normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:23.840217 2016] [core:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:31.995008 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00493: SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart >>>> AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully >>>> qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive >>>> globally to suppress this message >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:32.023059 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips >>>> configured -- resuming normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:55:32.023076 2016] [core:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 14:56:04.269625 2016] [ssl:error] [pid 29903:tid >>>> 139773645637376] [client 64.41.200.108:39890] AH02042: rejecting client >>>> initiated renegotiation >>>> [Mon Aug 15 18:40:58.774299 2016] [ssl:error] [pid 29904:tid >>>> 139773819877120] [client 64.41.200.105:34645] AH02042: rejecting client >>>> initiated renegotiation >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:07:02.626527 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 26081:tid >>>> 139773925775232] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:07:03.939317 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2548:tid >>>> 140489013651328] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) mod_jk/1.2.41 >>>> OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips configured -- resuming normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:07:03.939444 2016] [core:notice] [pid 2548:tid >>>> 140489013651328] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:13:44.445770 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2548:tid >>>> 140489013651328] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:13:45.265839 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2705:tid >>>> 140547327522688] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) mod_jk/1.2.41 >>>> OpenSSL/1.0.2g-fips configured -- resuming normal operations >>>> [Mon Aug 15 19:13:45.265879 2016] [core:notice] [pid 2705:tid >>>> 140547327522688] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' >>>> [Tue Aug 16 20:12:44.384947 2016] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2705:tid >>>> 140547327522688] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Rodrigo Cunha < >>>> rodrigo.root...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> execute >>>>> cat /var/log/apache2/error.log >>>>> and post stdout >>>>> >>>>> 2016-08-16 19:26 GMT-03:00 R <bittransfer2...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I've installed apache on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine as follows: >>>>>> >>>>>> sudo apt-get install apache2 >>>>>> >>>>>> and it works fine. It does not restart on its own though after a >>>>>> reboot. >>>>>> Are there other Ubuntu 16.04 users that have it restarting on reboot? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Atenciosamente, >>>>> Rodrigo da Silva Cunha >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company > registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 > Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >