I can't renew certificates with letsencrypt certificates for my HTTPS ubuntu 16.04.

June 5, 2017 7.3k views
Apache Let's Encrypt
Muntansir
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Muntansir

Hi!

I have tried to renew certificates and it just doesn’t seem to work. When I type in the command: sudo certbot renew I get

The following error was encountered:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: ’/var/log/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock’
If running as non-root, set –config-dir, –work-dir, and –logs-dir to writeable paths.
muna@Private-Server-Basic:~$ sudo letsencrypt renew
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.coffeeinnleyton.co.uk.conf

Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.coffeeinnleyton.co.uk.conf produced an unexpected error: ‘Namespace’ object has no attribute 'apache_enmod’. Skipping.

Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.ionlinemarketing.co.uk.conf

Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.ionlinemarketing.co.uk.conf produced an unexpected error: 'Namespace’ object has no attribute 'apache_enmod’. Skipping.

No renewals were attempted.

Additionally, the following renewal configuration files were invalid:
/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.coffeeinnleyton.co.uk.conf (parsefail)
/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.ionlinemarketing.co.uk.conf (parsefail)
0 renew failure(s), 2 parse failure(s)

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance

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3 Answers
hansen June 5, 2017

Hi @Muntansir

That’s very strange errors indeed. Can you run this sudo certbot --version

It might be easier to remove everything Let’s Encrypt and get new certificates again.

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  • Muntansir June 6, 2017

    Thanks for the response!

    The certbot version is 0.14.2.

    Might be best to just remove and re-instate the certificates.

    Regards,
    Muna

    • hansen June 6, 2017

      Remember to remove the log folder, just to clean that out too:

      sudo rm -R /var/log/letsencrypt/

      I’m not sure if you can remove the entire /etc/letsencrypt/ folder and just run the certbot again or if you need to first uninstall certbot, then remove /etc/letsencrypt/ folder, then install certbot again.

      • Muntansir June 6, 2017

        Thanks!

        Will give this a try once I get home tonight and let you know how it goes.

        • Muntansir June 9, 2017

          So I have a habbit of breaking things in exceptional ways (kind of my talent).

          I managed to reinstall after a few days and the certificate is working however the website isn’t. I added on some packages to php7 and then removed the index file which was originally displaying however now when you go to the website it just downloads a file…

          I have a feeling it may be pointing to the wrong direction so will play around with the config file and hope that sorts it.

          • Muntansir June 9, 2017

            I managed to fix it!

            If you’re interested in the loading files the order was index.html etc etc etc index.php etc I had to move index.php to the front and it seemed to work fine after that!

            Want to say thank you so much for all of your help.

          • hansen June 10, 2017

            @Muntansir
            Hahah - that’s an excellent skill :)
            But great that you got everything working - that’s how you learn!
            If you need further help with anything, just create a new question here in the forum.

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info9c50995a123ff2e49ebb0d August 2, 2018

I am in a similar situation..ubuntu 16 First, my site was not showing not secure although letsencrypt certificate was valid. So I tried reinstalling certbot. I get an error apache plugin is not working…would love to uninstall letsencrypt and reinstall…any idea how I uninstall?

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