Tilde ~ not referring to home
I am getting the error
SSLCertificateFile: file ‘/etc/apache2/~/joebloggs/somesite_com.crt’ does not exist or is empty
Due to the following line written in default-ssl.conf
SSLCertificateChainFile ~/joebloggs/somesite_com.crt
In order to refer to the file home/joebloggs/joebloggs/somesite_com.crt
I’ve also used ../ to try and go up a directory when attempting to create a relative address to the crt, but this fails also. Anybody know what is going wrong?
The tilde (~) referring to one’s $HOME directory is a bash (and other shells’) feature.
Apache does not support this feature.
You must specify the file as /home/joebloggs/joebloggs/somesite_com.crt
Apache uses the ~ to turn on "extended regular expression" evaluation in directives like Directory. Someone should have mentioned this I think.
For example (from manual):
<Directory ~ "^/www/.*/[0-9]{3}">