SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/puppet.lab.net.pem' does not exist or is empty

[Mohamed Anees]

Error message:

Jul 04 08:42:09 puppet.lab.net systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...

Jul 04 08:42:09 puppet.lab.net httpd[4009]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 23 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/puppetmaster.conf:

Jul 04 08:42:09 puppet.lab.net httpd[4009]: SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/puppet.lab.net.pem' does not exist or is empty

Jul 04 08:42:09 puppet.lab.net systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

[root@puppet puppet]# cat /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/puppet.lab.net.pem

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

MIIFmDCCA4CgAwIBAgIBAjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADAkMSIwIAYDVQQDDBlQdXBw

[root@puppet puppet]# cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

[root@puppet puppet]# hostname

puppet.lab.net

[root@puppet puppet]# puppet master --version

5.0.0

Reviewed the existing thread in the community and tried deleting /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl and retried generating certificate using puppet and still same problem.

Any ideas?