Yosemite 10.10.5 Update Disabled Apache

I followed your suggestion stamps-uk, and moved not only server.crt, but also server.csr, server.key and server.key.pub into the /etc/apache2/ssl/ directory.

Then in /etc/apache2/etc/httpd-ssl.conf under the ## SSL Virtual Host Context heading, I not only changed

SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/server.crt"

to

SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt"

but also,

SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/server.key"

to

SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/server.key"

I also confirmed that server.crt contained 'CN=localhost' since SSL Virtual Host Context in httpd-ssl.conf is for localhost and contains:

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host

DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"

ServerName localhost:443

ServerAdmin kimrvan@****.ca

ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/error_log"

TransferLog "/private/var/log/apache2/access_log"

The Apache 'error_log' confirmed these changes worked because now I was seeing:

ssl_util_ssl.c(404): AH02412: [localhost:443] Cert matches for name 'localhost'

But alas, I was still seeing this in my /private/var/log/apache2/WEBSITE-error_log

[client 127.0.0.1:56263] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/WEBSITE/

Thank you enanim, but with each change, I checked using:

> sudo apachectl configtest

which returned

Syntax OK

I believe the above is equivalent to

> sudo apachectl -t

Here's where I'm at now...

After seeing the line below in /private/var/log/apache2/WEBSITE-error.log

[client 127.0.0.1:56263] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /Library/WebServer/Documents/sutp/webroot/

research at

http://www.thermalexposure.com/2014/11/14/fix-broken-apache-config-after-upgradi ng-to-os-x-yosemite/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18392741/apache2-ah01630-client-denied-by-ser ver-configuration

suggested I replace all occurrences of

Allow from all

Order allow,deny

with

Require all granted

Which I did in

/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-manual.conf

/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

/etc/apache2/other/mod_lasso9.conf

/etc/apache2/users/Guest.conf

/etc/apache2/users/USER.conf

And following comments by nicholos in

http://enzolutions.com/articles/2014/10/19/apache-issues-after-upgrade-to-mac-os -x-yosemite/

I moved the <Directory> section from /etc/apache2/httpd-vhosts.conf to /etc/apache2/users/USER.conf

The 'Require all granted' solution eradicated the 'client denied by server configuration' error, however now I'm stuck with,

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Upon closer inspection, turns out I made a careless error...

In the Apache error_log:

(500)Unknown error: 500: [client 127.0.0.1:59686] No matching instance host name: www.WEBSITE.dev

And my httpd.vhosts.conf included:

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents/WEBSITE/webroot"

ServerName WEBSITE.dev

ServerAlias www.WEBSITE.dev

RewriteEngine On

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/WEBSITE.dev.crt"

SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/WEBSITE.dev.key"

ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/WEBSITE.dev-error_log"

DirectoryIndex index.lasso index.html

</VirtualHost>

The problem was solved by deleting the following from the config:

#ServerAlias www.WEBSITE.dev

#SSLEngine on

#SSLCertificateFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/WEBSITE.dev.crt"

#SSLCertificateKeyFile "/private/etc/apache2/ssl/WEBSITE.dev.key"

Thanks Tim for you help...