Apache HTTP to HTTPS Redirect working for alias but not server name

Question

I have created an SSL certificate using Let's Encrypt.
The certificate has been installed and is referenced in the Apache config file.
The Apache config provides a ServerName (e.g., example.com) and a ServerAlias (e.g., www.example.com). Both are referenced in the SSL certificate as verified by the output from the certbot certificates command.

The Apache config also contains a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*) https://example.com/$1

The problem is that the redirect is only happening for the alias (www.example.com). Requests to example.com result in a simple 200 OK response.

Request to alias:

$ curl -I www.example.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:13:57 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Location: https://example.com/ Content-Length: 325 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 

Request to the actual ServerName value:

curl -I example.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:16:43 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Last-Modified: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:03:31 GMT ETag: "2aa6-59f32fc296ba5" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 10918 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html 

The <VirtualHost *:80> and <VirtualHost *:443> sections of the config file are identical except for the redirect in the *:80 section and the SSL lines in the *:443 section:

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example/privkey.pem Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf 

Am I missing something obvious or have I just gone far awry? :-) Thanks

Answer 1

Figured it out! :-) Posting the answer here in case some other poor soul makes the same mistake that I did.

Turns out that there was a <VirtualHost *:80> entry in 000-default.conf with the same server name (ServerName example.com). The 000-default.conf file does not include the SSL configuration directives.

It appears that if the same ServerName shows up in more than one enabled Apache config file, which entry takes precedence is indeterminate.

I simply changed the ServerName directive in 000-default.conf to include a host name and restarted Apache. Problem solved.