Cert not created: required ports is already taken

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My domain is:

I ran this command:/root/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto renew -nvv --standalone > /var/log/letsencrypt/renew.log 2>&1

It produced this output:
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2016-08-19 01:00:06,653:DEBUG:certbot.error_handler:Encountered exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py”, line 108, in _solve_challenges
resp = self.auth.perform(self.achalls)
File “/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/plugins/standalone.py”, line 217, in perform
"At least one of the (possibly) required ports is "
MisconfigurationError: At least one of the (possibly) required ports is already taken.
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My operating system is (include version):Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

My web server is (include version):

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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):putty

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This was a problem with my script not stopping nginx for some reason (service nginx stop). When I stopped it manually and ran the renew command, it renewed ok.

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