Questions tagged [certbot]
Certbot is the official client used to issue Let's Encrypt SSL certificates. This tag is for the certbot client itself. For questions regarding SSL in general, use the [ssl] tag.
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How to renew only one domain with certbot?
I have multiple domains with multiple certificates:
$ ll /etc/letsencrypt/live/
> domain1.com
> domain2.com
> domain3.com
> ...
I need to renew only domain1.com, but the command certbot ...
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E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/certbot/certbot/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file
Since i installed certbot on Debian 10, it always shows this error:
root@HypeTime:/home/sinusbot# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb....
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How to install Certbot (Let's Encrypt) without interaction?
I am writing a bash script which bootstraps the whole project infrastructure in the freshly installed server and i want to configure ssl installation with letcecrypt certbot. After I execute line:
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Issue using certbot with nginx
I'm actually working on a webapp, I use Reactjs for the frontend and Golang for the backend. Those 2 programs are hosted separately on 2 VMs on Google-Compute-Engine. I want to serve my app through ...
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How do I schedule the Let's Encrypt certbot to automatically renew my certificate in cron?
I've seen conflicting recommendations. From the eff.org docs:
if you're setting up a cron or systemd job, we recommend running it twice per day... Please select a random minute within the hour for ...
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How can I see all domains in my SSL certificate made by Certbot?
I created a multi domain certificate and forget the domains I included in it.
How can I see them? How can I get this list?
so far I only find a way of how to get the expiration date
$ sudo openssl ...
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How to stop renewing a letsencrypt/certbot certificate?
There are lots of tutorials online of how to create and renew a certificate with letsencrypt, but I want to remove and stop renewing a certificate that I created (it was only created for testing ...
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How to update Certbot version?
I am running certbot --apache but I get the following error:
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
Client ...
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Certbot Apache error "Name duplicates previous WSGI daemon definition."
On my Ubuntu 16.04 server, I have an Apache conf file at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf, which looks like this (abbreviated):
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
<VirtualHost *:80>
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Certbot not creating acme-challenge folder
I had working Let's encrypt certificates some months ago (with the old letsencrypt client).
The server I am using is nginx.
Certbot is creating the .well-known folder, but not the acme-challenge ...
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Certbot /.well-known/acme-challenge
Should I leave the /.well-known/acme-challenge always exposed on the server?
Here is my config for the HTTP:
server {
listen 80;
location '/.well-known/acme-challenge' {
root /var/www/...
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Configure Nginx to reply to http://my-domain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/XXXX
I'm not able to get nginx to return the files I've put in /var/www/letsencrypt.
nginx/sites-available/mydomain.conf
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
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Difference between certbot and certbot-auto
I am using letsencrypt for my server to support https. When looking around I find commands with certbot and others with certbot-auto with similar funcionalities. Do you need to use consistently one or ...
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Certbot renew: nginx: [error] open() "/run/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory)
Certbot and nginx versions:
certbot installed using certbot.eff.org install guide.
Certbot version: 0.22.2
Nginx version: 1.10.3
Getting ssl certificates works fine:
certbot --nginx
But, in ...
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AWS: Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore
Trying to renew letsencript on Amazon Linux 2 using certbot and I get the following message:
Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore. Certbot cannot
be installed.
I am totally lost and ...
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Certbot - DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for xxx - check that a DNS records exists for this [closed]
So I tried to run the following
sudo certbot certonly --nginx --dry-run -d subdomain.domain.com -d www.subdomain.domain.com
That gave me a DNS problem, however, it worked when running
sudo certbot ...
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DNS resolution in docker containers
[environment]
CentOS 7
Docker 19.03.12, build 48a66213fe
I have a failing cerbot (let's encrypt client) inside a docker container. It looks like acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.orgis not resolvable from ...
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E: Package 'python-certbot-nginx' has no installation candidate
When I try to install Certbot for Nginx and run
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
I get
E: Package 'python-certbot-nginx' has no installation candidate
How to install Certbot for Nginx?
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How to setup Letsencrypt for Google Cloud Compute Engine load balancer?
I've setup my Google Cloud Project to use a load balancer in combination with auto scaling instance templates. Currently the instance group only has one instance.
My domain name successfully refers ...
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Certbot failing acme-challenge (connection refused)
I'm trying to set up a Django project with docker + nginx following the tutorial Nginx and Let's Encrypt with Docker in Less Than 5 Minutes.
The issue is when I run the script init-letsencrypt.sh I ...
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NGINX + Let's encrypt: Could not automatically find a matching server block
I'm publishing a website made with Python Pyramid on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. The website is running properly on HTTP and now I'm trying to make it run on HTTPS by following this article but when ...
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Let's Encrypt: How to manually test the certbot renewal process?
I have a working setup where Let's Encrypt certificates are generated with certbot. I wonder how you effectively test whether the renewal will work in production.
The certificates last for 90 days. ...
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Clear a pending authorization for certificate (ACME) after rateLimit error
I'm using Let's Encrypt for my site, and I had an error in my cron job that resulted in an error when I attempted to manually renew ($ sudo letsencrypt renew):
Error: urn:acme:error:rateLimited ...
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Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80.... Please add a virtual host for port 80
My web server is set up like this:
AWS EC2 Linux AMI
Apache 2.4
PHP 7
MySQL
Certbot is giving me an error like this when I try to run it:
Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is ...
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How correctly install ssl certificate using certbot in docker?
I am trying to deploy Node.js/Express application with Docker, using Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for HTTPS.
When I run docker-compose up command all 3 services started but I notice such warning:
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certbot cannot verify domain and connection refused
I am trying to generate certificate for my domain. I can ping my domain but still getting error. I have added inbound firewall rule to my digital ocean server to accept port 80 on ipv4 and ipv6 as ...
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Certbot not found
i installed letsencrypt on my ubuntu 16.04 machine with following command.
sudo apt-get install letsencrypt
Now, i want to define a cronjob to automatically renew my certs with following line.
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Shell script to make site https using certbot and nginx
I know how to install ssl certificate using command-line. But i need a shell script this time to do this task.
Generally while doing this manually i first execute the fowllowing:-
sudo apt-get ...
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Certbot-auto renew failed - The client lacks sufficient authorization - Why? [closed]
So it's been years i put a certbot-auto certificate for multiple domains on the same server (Apache 2.2 - Debian 7). But today I saw my crontab didn't renew the certificate so I tried to do it in SSH ...
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What is the proper way to script a new nginx instance with SSL on a new Ubuntu 16.04 server?
I have this so far but I'm missing a couple of things like getting the cron job scripted. Don't want to do this as root. So I'm assuming some more could be done to set up the first user at the same ...
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Certbot-auto --manual plugin not working
I already generated certificates using certbot-auto with --manual plugin. Now the certbot version upgraded from 0.25.1 to 0.26.1, now i’m not able to use the --manual option as it says deprecated in ...
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Let's Encrypt certbot-auto fails because a Python / pip problem
Yesterday all was fine, but today, running the same command using certbot-auto to renew a certificate, I get this :
Upgrading certbot-auto 0.31.0 to 0.32.0...
Replacing certbot-auto...
Creating ...
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Certbot unable to locate environment variable credentials
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 server on an AWS EC2 instance running Apache and I'm trying to obtain a certificate using certbot, however I'm having trouble with credentials. Below is the command I run, ...
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How can I use "let's encrypt" without stopping nginx?
I am adding https support to our servers. How can I not stop Nginx when adding Let's Encrypt support?
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Certbot - Update your client software to continue using Let's Encrypt - Update ACME v1 to v2 in Ubuntu 14.04
I've receive an email from [email protected] with the subject "Update your client software to continue using Let's Encrypt"
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS in the servers where I host my https ...
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Certbot MisconfigurationError: nginx restart failed
On a setup with Ubuntu 16.04, Certbot 0.28.0, and nginx 1.10.3, I can't use Certbot to renew an existing certificate.
When I run sudo certbot renew, it fails and I get these errors:
Hook command "...
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What should letsencrypt certbot-auto's "webroot-path" be for a non-PHP / non-static-files website?
In the case you have a website using Apache only (maybe with PHP) that is in:
/home/www/mywebsite/
/home/www/mywebsite/index.php
/home/www/mywebsite/style.css
then, it's easy to set certbot's --...
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How to redirect www to non-www using certbot for HTTPS & nginx
I'm trying to redirect www to non-www but it doesn't work. I've tried various answers from similar questions but those haven't worked.
I have SSL cert using certbot for 3 domains example.com, www....
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How to do auto-renewal of TLS certificates with certbot?
I have an application with Nginx docker container for which the TLS certs are generated manually using the following command in the host (with Ubuntu OS) where application is deployed:
certbot ...
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certbot cannot import name 'appengine' from 'urllib3.contrib'
On my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with Python 3.10.6, Certbot gives the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests_toolbelt/_compat.py", line ...
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Create a Docker Apache image with LetsEncrypt
I have a trouble with Docker and LetsEncrypt.
As far as I can understand, Certbot (the bot to install LetsEncrypt on Apache or any HTTP Server) checks if the user owns the domain associated to the ...
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certbort commands return ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_cffi_backend'
I followed a guide to get my python flask app running and I am at the last step where I change http into https with certbot. But when I run my certbot command sudo certbot --nginx -d domainname -d www....
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certbot renew / certonly dash error : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
I'm getting a weird error on lets-encrypt certbot that seems linked to the presence of a dash in my second domain name (on the real one position 8 correspond to the position of said dash).
The error ...
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How to uninstall/remove Certbot Let's Encrypt from Debian 8
I just followed the instuctions found on :
https://certbot.eff.org/#debianjessie-apache
to install let's encrypt certificate on my linux vps.
but unfortunately, installation did not went as I ...
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Can I use Nginx Certbot to put ssl in an aws default ec2 domain?
I tried to put the command to get the certificate but it gave me this error:
An unexpected error occurred:
The server will not issue certificates for the identifier :: Error creating new order :: ...
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Nginx LetsEncrypt error "/etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf" no such file or directory
I am trying to add https using LetsEncrypt and Nginx. I have added certbot and it ran sucessfully. Then when trying to run the Nginx server I am getting this error.
/docker-entrypoint.sh: /docker-...
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Kubernetes certbot standalone not working
I'm trying to generate an SSL certificate with certbot/certbot docker container in kubernetes. I am using Job controller for this purpose which looks as the most suitable option. When I run the ...
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To use Certbot, packages from the EPEL repository need to be installed
I use certbot-auto for deploying Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and I renew certificate with crontab -e like this:
* 01 * * 1 /home/myname/certbot-auto --quiet
It has an error message like the ...
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No package certbot available
I'm trying to install certbot on RHEL server.
Instructions to enable epel-release
# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
then
# subscription-manager ...
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Problem binding to port 80: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6 with certbot
I'm trying to update an SSL certificate on digital ocean with the command certbot renew But I get this error:
Problem binding to port 80: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6.
running netstat -plunt ...
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