Question
Error in Certbot renewal process
Today, I moved my application from apache to nginx. I used this tutorial to setup SSL using certbot. Everything went fine, until I run the --dry-run
command.
Here is the error I am getting:
http-01 challenge for www.somedomain.com
Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
Unable to restart apache using ['apache2ctl', 'graceful']
Cleaning up challenges
Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
Unable to restart apache using ['apache2ctl', 'graceful']
Encountered exception during recovery:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2185, in _reload
util.run_script(self.option("restart_cmd"))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/util.py", line 86, in run_script
raise errors.SubprocessError(msg)
certbot.errors.SubprocessError: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 75, in handle_authorizations
resp = self._solve_challenges(aauthzrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 139, in _solve_challenges
resp = self.auth.perform(all_achalls)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2287, in perform
self.restart()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2175, in restart
self._reload()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2203, in _reload
raise errors.MisconfigurationError(error)
certbot.errors.MisconfigurationError: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2185, in _reload
util.run_script(self.option("restart_cmd"))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/util.py", line 86, in run_script
raise errors.SubprocessError(msg)
certbot.errors.SubprocessError: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/error_handler.py", line 108, in _call_registered
self.funcs[-1]()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 323, in _cleanup_challenges
self.auth.cleanup(achalls)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2312, in cleanup
self.restart()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2175, in restart
self._reload()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py", line 2203, in _reload
raise errors.MisconfigurationError(error)
certbot.errors.MisconfigurationError: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
Attempting to renew cert (somedomain.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/somedomain.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
. Skipping.
The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/somedomain.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
** DRY RUN: simulating 'certbot renew' close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates below have not been saved.)
The following certs were successfully renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/somedomain.com-0001/fullchain.pem (success)
The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/somedomain.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
** DRY RUN: simulating 'certbot renew' close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates above have not been saved.)
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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
I have already uninstalled the apache.
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