Action 'configtest' failed?

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output:

Last login: Sun May 6 12:08:04 2018 from 82.24.161.12
manager@web-server:~$ sudo certbot --apache
[sudo] password for manager:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for manager:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org

Which names would you like to activate HTTPS for?

1: shentaichiacademy.co.uk
2: www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk
3: archery-for.me.uk
4: www.archery-for.me.uk

Select the appropriate numbers separated by commas and/or spaces, or leave input
blank to select all options shown (Enter ā€˜cā€™ to cancel): 2
Cert not yet due for renewal

You have an existing certificate that has exactly the same domains or certificat e name you requested and isnā€™t close to expiry.
(ref: /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk-0001.conf)

What would you like to do?

1: Attempt to reinstall this existing certificate
2: Renew & replace the cert (limit ~5 per 7 days)

Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press ā€˜cā€™ to cancel): 1
Keeping the existing certificate
Created an SSL vhost at /etc/apache2/sites-available/shentaichiacademy.co.uk-le- ssl.conf
Enabled Apache socache_shmcb module
Enabled Apache ssl module
Deploying Certificate to VirtualHost /etc/apache2/sites-available/shentaichiacad emy.co.uk-le-ssl.conf
Enabling available site: /etc/apache2/sites-available/shentaichiacademy.co.uk-le -ssl.conf
Error while running apache2ctl configtest.
Action ā€˜configtestā€™ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

AH00526: Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/shentaichiacademy.co.uk.conf:
Name duplicates previous WSGI daemon definition.

Rolling back to previous server configurationā€¦
Error while running apache2ctl configtest.
Action ā€˜configtestā€™ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

AH00526: Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/shentaichiacademy.co.uk.conf:
Name duplicates previous WSGI daemon definition.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • We were unable to install your certificate, however, we
    successfully restored your server to its prior configuration.
  • Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
    /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk-0001/fullchain.pem
    Your key file has been saved at:
    /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk-0001/privkey.pem
    Your cert will expire on 2018-08-04. To obtain a new or tweaked
    version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again
    with the ā€œcertonlyā€ option. To non-interactively renew all of
    your certificates, run ā€œcertbot renewā€

My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.18

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu MATE 16.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Myself

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I donā€™t know): Yes

Iā€™m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): No

Thank you for any help if the following file is any useā€¦
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/shentaichiacademy.co.uk.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port t$
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the requestā€™s Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.

    ServerAdmin sdbrown67@googlemail.com
    ServerName shentaichiacademy.co.uk
    ServerAlias www.shentaichiacademy.co.uk

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /home/manager/Websites/shen
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/manager/Websites/shen/shen/wsgi.py
    WSGIDaemonProcess shentaichiacademy.co.uk python-path=/home/manager/Web$
    WSGIProcessGroup shentaichiacademy.co.uk

    Alias /media/ /home/manager/Websites/shen/media/
    Alias /static/ /home/manager/Websites/shen/static/

    <Directory /home/manager/Websites/shen/media>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/manager/Websites/shen/static>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/manager/Websites/shen>
            <Files wsgi.py>
                    Require all granted
            </Files>
    </Directory>

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

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Hi,

The configtest failed means Apache has a problem starting (executing)
As the following lines of your log out put states.

Can you try to resolve this issue?

P.S. I've found this link

Thank you

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