I have been running this for a long time, but yesterday's renewal failed. I ended up setting up a host on Windows to manually get the certificate and ftp it to the jabber server. That worked. But for 48 hours now I have not been able to get Certbot to run on Ubuntu. I even did an apt purge on certbot and reinstalled. Still get same error.
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My domain is: jabber.aquilatech.com
I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --dry-run --authenticator standalone -d jabber.aquilatech.com --preferred-challenges http --pre-hook "service nginx stop" --post-hook "service nginx start"
It produced this output:
2018-01-12 13:53:56,681:DEBUG:certbot.main:Root logging level set at 20
2018-01-12 13:53:56,682:INFO:certbot.main:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
2018-01-12 13:53:56,682:DEBUG:certbot.main:certbot version: 0.10.2
2018-01-12 13:53:56,683:DEBUG:certbot.main:Arguments: ['--dry-run', '--authenticator', 'standalone', '-d', 'jabber.aquilatech.com', '--preferred-challenges', 'http', '--pre-hook', 'service nginx stop', '--post-hook', 'service nginx start']
2018-01-12 13:53:56,683:DEBUG:certbot.main:Discovered plugins: PluginsRegistry(PluginEntryPoint#webroot,PluginEntryPoint#null,PluginEntryPoint#manual,PluginEntryPoint#standalone)
2018-01-12 13:53:56,683:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:Requested authenticator standalone and installer None
2018-01-12 13:53:56,869:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:Single candidate plugin: * standalone
Description: Spin up a temporary webserver
Interfaces: IAuthenticator, IPlugin
Entry point: standalone = certbot.plugins.standalone:Authenticator
Initialized: <certbot.plugins.standalone.Authenticator object at 0x7f63e737cc90>
Prep: True
2018-01-12 13:53:56,870:DEBUG:certbot.plugins.selection:Selected authenticator <certbot.plugins.standalone.Authenticator object at 0x7f63e737cc90> and installer None
2018-01-12 13:53:57,122:DEBUG:root:Sending GET request to https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/directory.
2018-01-12 13:53:57,125:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org
2018-01-12 13:53:57,165:DEBUG:certbot.main:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 11, in
load_entry_point('certbot==0.10.2', 'console_scripts', 'certbot')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 849, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 621, in obtain_cert
le_client = _init_le_client(config, auth, installer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 399, in _init_le_client
acc, acme = _determine_account(config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 384, in _determine_account
config, account_storage, tos_cb=_tos_cb)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py", line 127, in register
acme = acme_from_config_key(config, key)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py", line 41, in acme_from_config_key
return acme_client.Client(config.server, key=key, net=net)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py", line 69, in init
self.net.get(directory).json())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py", line 641, in get
self._send_request('GET', url, **kwargs), content_type=content_type)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py", line 614, in _send_request
response = self.session.request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 475, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 585, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 403, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 578, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 354, in _make_request
self._raise_timeout(err=e, url=url, timeout_value=conn.timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 324, in _raise_timeout
if 'timed out' in str(err) or 'did not complete (read)' in str(err): # Python 2.6
TypeError: str returned non-string (type Error)
My web server is (include version): (standalone)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 17.04
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): No
