Hello, I installed certbot and got a certificate for my WordPress site on a Vultr server a while ago. I want to renew the certificate for the first time but encounter an error. I don’t know how to proceed from there. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you.
The instruction I used to install a certificate is from https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-lets-encrypt-ssl-on-one-click-wordpress-app
The letsencrypt log is attached: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k157h4xikr252s5/certbot%20error%20log.txt?dl=0
My domain is: https://liu-kb.cc
I ran this command: certbot renew
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/liu-kb.cc.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for liu-kb.cc
nginx: [error] invalid PID number "" in "/var/run/nginx.pid"
Cleaning up challenges
nginx: [error] invalid PID number "" in "/var/run/nginx.pid"
Encountered exception during recovery:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 75,dle_authorizations
resp = self._solve_challenges(aauthzrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 126olve_challenges
resp = self.auth.perform(all_achalls)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li, in perform
self.restart()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li in restart
nginx_restart(self.conf('ctl'), self.nginx_conf)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li, in nginx_restart
"nginx restart failed:\n%s\n%s" % (out.read(), err.read()))
certbot.errors.MisconfigurationError: nginx restart failed:
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During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/error_handler.py", line 10call_registered
self.funcs[-1]()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py", line 310leanup_challenges
self.auth.cleanup(achalls)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li, in cleanup
self.restart()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li in restart
nginx_restart(self.conf('ctl'), self.nginx_conf)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot_nginx/configurator.py", li, in nginx_restart
"nginx restart failed:\n%s\n%s" % (out.read(), err.read()))
certbot.errors.MisconfigurationError: nginx restart failed:
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Attempting to renew cert (liu-kb.cc) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/liu-kbf produced an unexpected error: nginx restart failed:
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All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/liu-kb.cc/fullchain.pem (failure)
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All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/liu-kb.cc/fullchain.pem (failure)
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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
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My web server is (include version): nginx on Vultr
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04 x64 4.9.4
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