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My domain is: https://stegrainer.com
I ran this command: sudo certbot renew --dry-run (after updating certbot)
It produced this output:
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/stegrainer.com-0001.conf
Cert not due for renewal, but simulating renewal for dry run
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Renewing an existing certificate
Attempting to renew cert (stegrainer.com-0001) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/stegrainer.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Deserialization error: Could not decode ‘status’ (‘ready’): Deserialization error: Status not recognized. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/stegrainer.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.18
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 14.04
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digital Ocean
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
I ran a certbot dry-run before updating (because I have LE certs on multiple domains across a couple different servers and the email I got warning me about ACME TLS didn’t specify which domain(s) it was. When I ran the dry-run originally, I didn’t get any errors.
I found instructions in another thread to update certbot from the EFF site and ran through those. All the updates seemed to work properly, but when I ran the dry-run again, I got the above error. Any thoughts? I set up Let’s Encrypt on this domain several years ago so I honestly don’t remember how I set it up at the time.