can't enable Apache SSL website

Virtualmin
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Virtualmin version 6.04

the website home directory is
/home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public
however, when trying to enable SSL, I get the message:
Creating SSL certificate and private key …
… SSL website failed! : Failed to open /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/fe/ssl.cert.webmintmp.17675 : No such file or directory at …/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1478, line 1.
I tried to create that extra /fe/ folder /dunno why SSL creation ould suggestthat folder but well…

So I got this error message:
… SSL website failed! : Failed to open /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/fe/ssl.cert.webmintmp.18082 : Permission denied at …/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1478, line 1
Hwever, I noticed that it created there two files, ssl.key.lock and ssl.cert.lock.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks

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Check the ownership of the folders and files in that directory. Make sure the ownership and permissions are correct.

Who are you logged in as when you manually created directory?

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Hi.
Thanks for your reply. It solved > I had created that “extra fe” folder as root (as I thought Virtualmin would work as root) . Now I changed ownership to the MyDomain user and works.
Thanks.
Still something is upsetting me. Why is virtualmin adding this “fe extra” folder? Where can I set that. I think the normal thing would be to have the
ssl.cert and ssl.key
in /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/
and not in /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/fe

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See also for other Forum readers the main cause of this in Troubleshooting topic

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/troubleshooting

This i don’t know sorry
in /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/
and not in /home/MyDomain/public_html/fe/public/fe