[Discuss] Help with Apache & SSL - can't fix 403 errors

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Daniel Barrett wrote: 
> On December 9, 2020, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >> Thanks Dan. Mistake on my part, but adding ServerName didn't change
> >> the 403 error behavior.
> >> 
> >> I should add that my localhost has ~10 other websites running on it
> >> (all over http) and SSL doesn't work in any of them (same 403 error).
> >
> >OK, what does the log say? 
> 
> Sorry, I should have said: hitting the https site (403 error) produces
> no messages at all in the error.log and access.log.

Is apache actually using port 443? 

sudo netstat -tlnp | grep 443

Kill the non-apache thing (or understand it, first), and check
that somewhere in the apache config is
Port 443
and then restart apache.

There should always be a log entry for a 403.

-dsr-