[Discuss] Help with Apache & SSL - can't fix 403 errors

[Daniel Barrett]

On December 9, 2020, Dan Ritter wrote:
>Daniel Barrett wrote: 
>> Sorry, I should have said: hitting the https site (403 error) produces
>> no messages at all in the error.log and access.log.
>
>Is apache actually using port 443? 
>
>sudo netstat -tlnp | grep 443

F*cking brilliant!

Port 443 was occupied by VMware Workstation.

  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Stop-VMWare-from-using-port-443/m-p/2737174

Thank you so much, Dan. I've been pulling my hair out over this
mystery for a week. Now I have secure websites running on localhost,
but unfortunately, I still have no more hair. :)

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Dan Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com