Certbot-auto renew not working in linux ami

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My domain is: doyogame.org

I ran this command: ./certbot-auto renew

It produced this output:
./certbot-auto renew

Requesting to rerun ./certbot-auto with root privileges…

FATAL: Amazon Linux support is very experimental at present…

if you would like to work on improving it, please ensure you have backups

and then run this script again with the --debug flag!

Alternatively, you can install OS dependencies yourself and run this script

again with --no-bootstrap.

My web server is (include version): amazon-linux-ami/2018.03-release-notes/

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: aws

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

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-auto (how to find version no idea)

i am very new to this field hence forgive me for my ignorance. need help i tried every method but i think i have messed up with directories and files on the server.

help will be appreciated.

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Hi @yahalife,

As the error message says, Certbot isn’t reliable on Amazon Linux. Did you follow a tutorial of some sort when you originally got your certificate?

You could try ./certbot-auto --debug renew and see if that works, but it might end up having a different problem, such as a packaging dependency problem.

If that doesn’t work, we can talk about using Docker to run Certbot, or switching to a different Let’s Encrypt client.

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thank you for your response.
i tried your suggestion and here is the result of the command that you shared
./certbot-auto --debug renew

Requesting to rerun ./certbot-auto with root privileges...
Bootstrapping dependencies for Amazon... (you can skip this with --no-bootstrap)
yum is /usr/bin/yum
To use Certbot, packages from the EPEL repository need to be installed.
Enabling the EPEL repository in 1 second....
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
amzn-main | 2.1 kB 00:00
amzn-updates | 2.5 kB 00:00
1065 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Package epel-release-6-8.9.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
yum is hashed (/usr/bin/yum)
To use Certbot, packages from the EPEL repository need to be installed.
Enabling the EPEL repository in 1 second....
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
1065 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Package epel-release-6-8.9.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
1065 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Package gcc-4.8.5-1.22.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Package augeas-libs-1.0.0-5.7.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:openssl-1.0.2k-16.150.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.150.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package libffi-devel-3.0.13-16.5.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package system-rpm-config-9.0.3-42.28.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Package ca-certificates-2018.2.22-65.1.20.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Package python27-devel-2.7.16-1.129.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package python27-virtualenv-15.1.0-1.14.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Package python27-tools-2.7.16-1.129.amzn1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package python27-pip-9.0.3-1.26.amzn1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
Creating virtual environment...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 27, in
File "", line 19, in create_venv
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 185, in check_call
retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 172, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

So, unfortunately there is no supported installation method for Certbot on your operating system.

Would you like to try running Certbot via Docker, or consider a different Let’s Encrypt client?

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I am open for whatever is best and helps longterm. Hence will follow your guidance.

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awaiting for your response

Which web server application do you use?

I am using AWS web server

it seems that i have not give you correct answer.
and i am clueless which web server application is used let me know how do if find out which we server application i am using?

Kindly help how to fix this issue

we are using apache web server application will it suffice you to give the solution?

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