I use certbot for multiple domains and subdomains, one with webroot, the rest with certbot-nginx. Now i wanted to get additional certificates to add new subdomains for nginx, and i get the error: "Could not parse file: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf due to Expected string_end, found 'http' (at char 224), …

Hi @hf147 , Thanks for sharing your configuration. I was able to reproduce the parsing problem and narrow it down to lines 46-48 [image] nginx-config nginx-config which are commented-out portions of your multiline log_format definition. These cause Certbot's…

Certbot-nginx: Expected string_end, found 'http'

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hf147 September 24, 2022, 11:38pm 3

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A certbot renew --dry-run is also giving the nginx.conf parsing error, even thought that all those subdomains worked at some point.

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Certbot-nginx: Expected string_end, found 'http'

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