Error after deleting

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My domain is:

www.eugenekimportfolio.com

I ran this command:

sudo certbot delete

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

Error while running apache2ctl configtest.

Action ‘configtest’ failed.

The Apache error log may have more information.

AH00526: Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/baseballstats.eugenekimportfolio.com-le-ssl.conf:

SSLCertificateFile: file ‘/etc/letsencrypt/live/baseballstats.eugenekimportfolio.com/fullchain.pem’ does not exist or is empty

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

i dont know

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

certbot 0.31.0

Description

I’ve seen similar topics on this forum, but I still can’t seem to figure out how to fix this. I should have just let the cert expire, but I regardless it’s too late now, and I tried to just delete it manually with sudo certbot delete. Now whenever i try to run sudo certbot --apache, it gives the above error (looking for the .pem file of the domain i just deleted).

I can’t seem to access /etc/letsencrypt/archive or any of those dirs at all either.

Appreciate any help I can get… I’m pretty new at all this if it isn’t obvious already. Thanks.

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What did you try to accomplish with deleting the certificates in the first place? That might be a good start to understand what you’re trying to do.

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Certbot only runs if there are no syntax errors on Apache. If you manually deleted the file, apache throws up a Syntax error because it can't find the file.

An option is to manually edit the vhost config file & comment out the SSLCertificate lines:

#SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert
#SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/chain
#SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/key
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Hi @ekim1707

disable that vHost. Then it doesn't block your Apache.

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Thank you so much for all your help. That took care of it completely.

As a follow-up question, can i just manually rm those .conf files now from my /etc/apache2/sites-available folder if I don’t need them anymore? Or is it better to just leave them with the commented out parts?

@Osiris it was a little silly, but i’m new to this. instead of just letting the domain’s cert just expire on its own, i was following some stack-overflow advice and i accidentally renewed the cert instead. I understand i could’ve just let it expire again, but i felt a little too ocd for that, so i just tried to manually delete it using the instructions to use sudo certbot delete (at the very least, i figured i would learn how to do something new… and i guess overall i did, so that’s only a good thing).

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I would remove the conf files if you're absolutely certain you're no longer using them. You can do a scream test by renaming them & adding a .bak extension to disable them.

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Sounds perfect and will do. Thank you!

Eugene

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