Action 'configtest' failed

Question

How can I fix this?

I am using an Amazon EC2 which is an image of another EC2 instance:

ubuntu@ip:~/LabelMeAnnotationTool-master$ sudo apt-get install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine apache2-suexec-custom apache2-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded.
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(Reading database ... 96282 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../apache2_2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apache2 (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17) over (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../apache2-bin_2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17_amd64.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack .../apache2-data_2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17_all.deb ...
Unpacking apache2-data (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17) over (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up apache2-bin (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17) ...
Setting up apache2-data (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17) ...
Setting up apache2 (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.17) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_prefork.load ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_event.load ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apache2/mods-available/mpm_worker.load ...
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                                                             [fail]
 * The apache2 configtest failed.
Output of config test was:
AH00526: Syntax error on line 61 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/apache2/ssl/d288922d35efb1b0.crt' does not exist or is empty
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "restart" failed.
ubuntu@ip:~/LabelMeAnnotationTool-master$ sudo ^C
ubuntu@ip:~/LabelMeAnnotationTool-master$ apache2ctl configtest
AH00526: Syntax error on line 61 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/apache2/ssl/d288922d35efb1b0.crt' does not exist or is empty
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

I am trying to follow the instruction at the end of page 2 of this tutorial: http://cs-people.bu.edu/sameki/blog1.pdf

Answer 1

SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/apache2/ssl/d288922d35efb1b0.crt' does not exist or is empty
Action 'configtest' failed.

Your missing a crt file. You should go to the original ec2 instance, locate that file, and SCP it to your newly spun up instance.

Answer 2

I had to update the .crt and .key in the sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf after I downloaded the Standard SSL certificate from godaddy.

Now I get:

~$ apache2ctl configtest
Syntax OK