Question
Certbot nginx plugin could not open file
Hello,
I have a simple personal website yohannparis.com
that I want to make HTTPS.
I setup my Nginx server block following this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04
And I followed this tutorial to install Let’s Encrypt on my server block:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-let-s-encrypt-with-nginx-server-blocks-on-ubuntu-16-04
Everything worked like a charm, up to Step 4 where the following command:
sudo certbot --nginx -d yohannparis.com -d www.yohannparis.com
return this:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not open file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yohannparis.com
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for yohannparis.com
tls-sni-01 challenge for www.yohannparis.com
Cleaning up challenges
Could not open file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yohannparis.com
Cannot find a VirtualHost matching domain yohannparis.com. In order for Certbot to correctly perform the challenge please add a corresponding server_name directive to your nginx configuration: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html
I checked the permissions on my server block file in /etc/nginx/
but it all look good:
.
├── [drwxr-xr-x] conf.d
[...]
├── [drwxr-xr-x] sites-available
│ ├── [-rw-r--r--] default
│ └── [-rw-r--r--] yohannparis.com
├── [drwxr-xr-x] sites-enabled
│ └── [lrwxrwxrwx] yohannparis.com -> sites-available/yohannparis.com
[...]
I tried to access the log on /var/log/letsencrypt
, but it wasn’t helpful:
2017-11-29 21:03:32,206:DEBUG:certbot.error_handler:Calling registered functions
2017-11-29 21:03:32,206:INFO:certbot.auth_handler:Cleaning up challenges
2017-11-29 21:03:32,478:WARNING:certbot_nginx.parser:Could not open file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yohannparis.com
2017-11-29 21:03:33,529:DEBUG:certbot.log:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('certbot==0.19.0', 'console_scripts', 'certbot')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 861, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 698, in run
certname, lineage)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 85, in _get_and_save_cert
lineage = le_client.obtain_and_enroll_certificate(domains, certname)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py", line 357, in obtain_and_enroll_certificate
certr, chain, key, _ = self.obtain_certificate(domains)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py", line 318, in obtain_certificate
self.config.allow_subset_of_names)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 74, in get_authorizations
resp = self._solve_challenges()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 115, in _solve_challenges
resp = self.auth.perform(self.achalls)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", line 767, in perform
sni_response = chall_doer.perform()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/tls_sni_01.py", line 55, in perform
vhost = self.configurator.choose_vhost(achall.domain)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", line 242, in choose_vhost
"https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html") % (target_name))
MisconfigurationError: Cannot find a VirtualHost matching domain yohannparis.com. In order for Certbot to correctly perform the challenge please add a corresponding server_name directive to your nginx configuration: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html
I changed my server block file permissions to 777
, but to no effect!
Where can I found a solution to this issue?
Thank you for your help.
Yohann Paris
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Hi, can you please post the output of the following command? It tests the Nginx config and outputs the result—I’m suspecting that Certbot is able to open the file but not parse it properly.
I tried
sudo nginx -t
before, but everything is fine:I also run
sudo nginx -s reload
to be sure.For information here is the content of my server bloc:
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