Fail to Run Certbot on Apache

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My domain is: dannyleslie.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.

The error was: NoInstallationError('Cannot find Apache executable apache2ctl')

My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.48 (Unix)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

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
DirectAdmin (from post #4)

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 1.19.0

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Hi @likeasong, welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:

I second that guess.
Let's try to unravel this problem with the output of:
sudo apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

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Thank you for the welcome! Here is the output:

VirtualHost configuration:
174.138.180.9:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:31)
port 80 namevhost localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:31)
port 80 namevhost www.dannyleslie.com (/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/httpd.conf:20)
alias www.dannyleslie.com
alias dannyleslie.com
174.138.180.9:443 is a NameVirtualHost
default server localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:46)
port 443 namevhost localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:46)
port 443 namevhost www.dannyleslie.com (/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/httpd.conf:44)
alias www.dannyleslie.com
alias dannyleslie.com
*:443 www.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf:81)

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By the way, I forgot to mention that I use DirectAdmin.

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Does it have a menu option for SSL?

Either way, we should probably have a look at this file:

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Hi rg305, thank you for the reminder of checking DirectAdmin. So it does have an option to set the site to be secure SSL and I checked my website's certificate - it's from Let's Encrypt.

I would like to thank you for your very quick response. I am very new to web hosting and all, and getting help in time makes me so relieved.

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