Bug#1125111: apache2: Apache2 won't start, error "Read-only file system: AH10082: Can't change owner of /etc/apache2/md/challenges"

Juan Rafael Fernández García <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2026 18:43:32 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.apache
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 18:32, Bastien Roucaries <[email protected]> wrote:

> grep -R /md on the apache2 directory will help to identify the configuration.

Nothing relevant. Where's the configuration of mod_md, in
/etc/letsencrypt maybe?

> for your case move the /etc/apache2/md directory to /var/cache/md and create a symlink from /etc/apache2/md to  /var/cache/md

It worked! Now the server is listening. Thanks a lot.

Is it just me with /etc/apache2/md/? I still don't know how those
files were created in 2017.

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