Cannot load certificate key .../_.sub.domain.org.key failed - No such file or directory

[ei8fdb]

Hi all,

I've had an issue with backups filling my boot disk, and taking down the server.

I managed to recover - got most services restarted, except nginx.

During the process I deleted the Cloudron domain (sub.domain.org) .key file. I deleted it because it was zero byte size. I was reading another thread and got the idea there. This is now leading to the following issues:

Jun 17 11:48:06 apps nginx[6811]: nginx: [emerg] cannot load certificate key "/home/yellowtent/platformdata/nginx/cert/_.sub.domain.org.key": BIO_new_file() failed (SSL: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:fop$
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx - high performance web server.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Stopped nginx - high performance web server.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Starting nginx - high performance web server...
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps nginx[6835]: nginx: [emerg] cannot load certificate key "/home/yellowtent/platformdata/nginx/cert/_.sub.domain.org.key": BIO_new_file() failed (SSL: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:fop$
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx - high performance web server.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Stopped nginx - high performance web server.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 17 11:48:06 apps systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx - high performance web server.

My issue now is that nginx won't start, due to the _.sub.domain.org.key file not being there.

I'm unsure what to do from now.

Can anyone help? What options do I have to recover? Any help appreciated.

[girish]

@ei8fdb said in Cannot load certificate key .../_.sub.domain.org.key failed - No such file or directory:

_.sub.domain.org.key

One of the nginx config files is referencing this key. You can delete the config file and the key/cert file. You can find out which file is referencing it by grep'ing inside /etc/nginx/applications . Once deleted, you can systemctl restart nginx