Cannot find Apache control command apachectl,Python 2.6 is no longer supported by

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Hi ,

I am trying to install Let’s Encrypt Cert using Centos6/Apache on hosting provider Vultr. For the domain
mybigtoeinfo.com

I am using the guide from the following link for install steps;
https://certbot.eff.org/#centos6-apache.

During the setup I

2017-09-04 14:23:07,056:DEBUG:certbot.main:certbot version: 0.17.0
2017-09-04 14:23:07,056:DEBUG:certbot.main:Arguments: [’–apache’]
2017-09-04 14:23:07,056:DEBUG:certbot.main:Discovered plugins: PluginsRegistry(PluginEntryPoint#apache,PluginEntryPoint#manual,PluginEntryPoint#nginx,PluginEntryPoint#null,PluginEntryPoint#standalone,PluginEntryPoint#webroot)
2017-09-04 14:23:07,074:DEBUG:certbot.log:Root logging level set at 20
2017-09-04 14:23:07,074:INFO:certbot.log:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
2017-09-04 14:23:07,075:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:Requested authenticator apache and installer apache
2017-09-04 14:23:07,102:WARNING:certbot.plugins.util:Failed to find executable apachectl in PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin
2017-09-04 14:23:07,103:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.disco: **installation (PluginEntryPoint#apache): Cannot find Apache control command apachectl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/lib/python2.6/site-packages/certbot/plugins/disco.py”, line 130, in prepare
self._initialized.prepare()
File “/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/lib/python2.6/site-packages/certbot_apache/configurator.py”, line 173, in prepare
’Cannot find Apache control command {0}’.format(restart_cmd))
NoInstallationError: Cannot find Apache control command apachectl
2017-09-04 14:23:07,104:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:No candidate plugin
2017-09-04 14:23:07,104:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:Selected authenticator None and installer None

[root@drupalcc5 ~]# sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/apache/bin ./certbot-auto --apache
/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cryptography/init.py:26: DeprecationWarning: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of cryptography will drop support for Python 2.6
DeprecationWarning

This is the first time I have run a server , I have had a look at some suggested fixes but they vary and I rather not make a mistake. Can someone help me work a solution for this ?

Thanks all!
Darren

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There may be an issue with certbot 0.17 and python 2.6…
Can you update the python to 2.7?

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Hi thanks for the reply. As I mentioned first time using a server so all new to me. I had a look around re: update python 2.6 to 2.7 on Centos 6.3 and the guides vary a little to a lot. Most with warning if not done right you might break yum. Any suggestions on a guide that is good of how to do this would be helpful.

Thanks again
Darren

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Hi again,

Most of the guides I found a very long. I have come across the guide which seems pretty straight forward , not sure if its correct though.
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/

Any thoughts on if that guide would do the trick ?

Thanks

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if you aren’t using python for any other purpose - certbot only.
then it’s safe to remove it and try certbot-auto (which should load/install all requirements)

if that fails, try
apt-get update
apt-get install python
or
yum -y update
yum install -y python27

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I believe CentOS (and many other Linux flavors) rely heavily on Python, and modifying the system Python can be an issue. You can install multiple versions alongside each other, however.

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