Help with renewing cert / fixing misconfiguration

[justin]

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My domain is: sithon.io

I ran this command: certbot certificates

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io-0001.conf produced an unexpected error: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/sithon.io-0001/cert.pem to be a symlink. Skipping.
Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io-0002.conf produced an unexpected error: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/sithon.io-0002/cert.pem to be a symlink. Skipping.
Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io.conf produced an unexpected error: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/sithon.io/cert.pem to be a symlink. Skipping.
Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.sithon.io.conf produced an unexpected error: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.sithon.io/cert.pem to be a symlink. Skipping.

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The following renewal configurations were invalid:
  /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io-0001.conf
  /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io-0002.conf
  /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/sithon.io.conf
  /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.sithon.io.conf
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root@sithon:~#

My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.41

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: DigitalOcean

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 0.40.0

[justin]

I initially had installed certs for sithon.io and *.sithon.io and was attempting to renew today after they expired. Not sure what happened but now it appears a misconfiguration is preventing me from proceeding with anything. Any help greatly appreciated as our production site is currently down.

TIA!

[rg305]

Hi @justin, and welcome to the LE community forum

@justin

Not sure what happened

Did you try to copy, move, or delete any files within the /etc/letsencyrpt/ directories?

Can you show the rest of the output from?:
certbot certificates
[trying to figure out if there are any certs left worth saving]

[justin]

Hi @rg305 thanks for the quick reply. I think I just resolved it. I was finally able to manually create a new cert, delete the old ones, and then update the .conf file which was still referencing the path of the old cert... still new at all this so grateful to have support if/when needed!

certbot certificates now shows just the one new (valid) cert