Duplicate Apache vhosts break certbot --apache
Certbot --apache fails when Apache virtual hosts are duplicated across sites-available and sites-enabled directories.
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18 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
An administrator running several sites on Apache found that the same virtual hosts were defined in both sites-available and sites-enabled, and that port 80 and port 443 entries were split across the two directories.
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