I get to this point (see below command) and after I restart the server it will not read the sources.list entries, says that it cannot fetch them and my website is no longer responding. Traceroute completes without error. I went back to a previous snapshot where the website at least responds.
So, could you please try to execute certbot version in shell?
Or could you please look for certbot-auto?
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My domain is:
I ran this command:
It produced this output:
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
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I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
after i ran that command that screwed everything up I did see certbot-auto, but I went back to a snapshot where the website worked so that isn’t there anymore.
was there more to do after I ran that command before everything starts to work?
Which web server software are you using?
(Apache,NGINX, other)
There are instructions for both.
Here is a link to Apache on Debian 8:
Which require backports:
First you’ll have to follow the instructions here to enable the Jessie backports repo,
Which shows: apt-get -t stretch-backports install "package"
(a step that you may have missed)
I already ran through that, after clicking on the “here” link for the prerequisite settings I ran that first command after selecting the versions I am running and that is what caused my issue
the sudo apt-get command is the one, after it ran I restarted the server and I noticed that I could no longer run apt-get update. Was there something I should have done after running that command before restarting? I have a feeling its because I am using jessie and not stretch
I’m not 100% certain, but since the path you followed failed, and given you do have (can make) a snapshot to revert back to, I would try Debian 8 instruction link above.
thats what i did, I didnt use that second command you sent on my second attempt because it didnt do anything the first time. what do I put for “packages” when I did run that it said no such thing as package packages. It’s not very detailed
so, the command didn’t fail per-say, just didnt work…
I do agree the instructions are not intuitive.
I would try: sudo apt-get -t stretch-backports install python-certbot-apache
Which seems like it would be the same but the order is not.
Also found notes to include: apt-get -t stretch-backports install -f
then apt-get -t stretch-backports install python-certbot-apache
You might also want to give certbot-auto a try: mkdir /certbot-auto#or wherever you like cd /certbot-auto wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto chmod a+x ./certbot-auto ./certbot-auto