Topic: [solved] Disaster struck my server, server manger, webserver, mail server down

[cirkit]

After 3 complete years of running , my certifacte expired today, so i followed the instructions to extend the certificate duration from contribs upto 1826 days, After reboot i lost access to server manager, http server (with 5 virtual domains) is not responding, email--pop3s and smtps is not responding, the only services which are working are FTP,SSH, I managed to log into server manger via tunneling (localhost:980) all the settings seem well, I issued reconfigue but then too no change, when i log into ssh (via putty, try to access server manager text version..it says connection refused) pl help all my domains and services are down..

[CharlieBrady]

This should remove all your "customised" certificates, and start afresh with a standard self-signed certificates:

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rm -f /home/e-smith/ssl*/*
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot


[cirkit]

Done! Thanks a million
I just want to know how does a certificate problem affect all these functionalities?

[CharlieBrady]

I just want to know how does a certificate problem affect all these functionalities?

https, pop3s, imaps, smtps - notice anything in common?

[cirkit]

Yes!...The "S"--Understood

[CharlieBrady]

Yes!...The "S"--Understood

The only mystery should have been http access to your websites. They were likely down because httpd (apache) failed to start because of an SSL certificate issue. Your httpd/error_log file is probably full of errors related to that. If httpd fails to start, http (port 80) and https (port 443) would both be unavailable. pop3s and smtps (annd imaps) being down should be obvious.