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LetsEncrypt Renewal Failure

HI, I’m trying to renew my Let’s Encrypt certificate and it’s giving me an error PluginError((‘There has been an error in parsing the file (%s): %s’, u’/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.save’, u’Syntax error’),). Skipping.

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Please help me my certificate is going to expire in few hours and I’ve spent all day to find the solution.

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Ryan Quinn • August 25, 2016
Accepted Answer

What files are located in /etc/apache2/sites-available/

The presence of a .save file makes me think that you may have used an editor to modify your 000-default.conf file which created a backup (as the .save).

If the configuration in your 000-default.conf file looks correct you should be able to safely delete (or move somewhere else) the 000-default.conf.save file and try the renewal again.

surrkhab • July 15, 2017

FInally, after two hours of struggle, I landed on this page and this was the exact problem. Just deleted the .saved file and the renewal worked.