Hi all,

This is my first post to this list so excuse me if I have not submitted correctly. 

I have installed openstack Victoria manually as a multi node setup. A controller & 3 computes. Everything works fine and the way it's expected. I have secured horizon with letsencrypt certs (for now) and again all is fine. When I did a test deploy I also used those certs to load the novnc console securely and it worked.

My problem with my new deploy is that the console will not load no matter what I try. I get the following error when I enable debug mode in nova.

2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/websockify/websockifyserver.py", line 691, in top_new_client
2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy     client = self.do_handshake(startsock, address)
2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/websockify/websockifyserver.py", line 578, in do_handshake
2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy     context.load_cert_chain(certfile=self.cert, keyfile=self.key, password=self.key_password)
2021-06-04 15:54:11.004 356545 ERROR nova.console.websocketproxy PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

If I don't have debug enabled I just get the permission denied error. I have switched to the nova user and confirmed I can access the certs directory and read the certs. All my nova services are running fine as well.

My controller conf is the following:
[default]
ssl_only=true
cert=/etc/letsencrypt/live/ <MY_CONTROLLER_FQDN>/fullchain.pem
key=/etc/letsencrypt/live/ <MY_CONTROLLER_FQDN>/privkey.pem

[vnc]
enabled = true
server_listen = 0.0.0.0
server_proxyclient_address = $my_ip
novncproxy_base_url = https://<MY_CONTROLLER_FQDN>:6080/vnc_auto.html

My compute config is the following:
[vnc]
enabled = true
server_listen = 0.0.0.0
server_proxyclient_address = $my_ip
novncproxy_base_url = https://<MY_CONTROLLER_FQDN>:6080/vnc_auto.html 


If anyone could help that would be really appreciated or any advice to further troubleshoot!! I cannot see anything else in any logs but I might not be looking in the right place. Thank you in advance.

Derek