Can't reissue expired certificate (not due for renewal)

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My domain is: media-cdn.alteox.stream

I ran this command: /usr/bin/certbot certonly

It produced this output: 2019-12-07 20:39:20,934:INFO:certbot.renewal:Cert not yet due for renewal , however, cert is expired.

My web server is (include version): Nginx 1.12.2

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Not applicable (CDN service doing 301 redirect to a central server for all /.well-known/ requests.)

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): Yes

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot 0.14.2

Thank you in advance for your help. Our customer’s services are down as of now and we are unable to issue a new certificate for them. The current one has expired.

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Hi @Vix

if you use certonly, the certificate isn't installed and the webserver isn't restartet. So first step: Restart your webserver.

But checking your domain there is no newer certificate - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=media-cdn.alteox.stream

There is nothing. Rechecked via Google - Google Transparency Report - that's the same, no certificate.

What says

certbot certificates

And your certbot is terrible old. 0.14 may not longer work.

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Thank you @JuergenAuer for your response.
I am aware the certbot version is very outdated, and an update is planned.
We fixed the issue by removing the .conf files and the archive for the domain, and issued a new certificate. We will be reviewing the setup that we have in place for certificates management to find out how and why this happened.

certbot certificates responded with:

Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/media-cdn.alteox.stream.conf produced an unexpected error: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/media-cdn.alteox.stream/cert.pem to be a symlink. Skipping.

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All "files" in this folder should be symbolic links.
Please show output of:
ls -l /etc/letsencrypt/live/media-cdn.alteox.stream/

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