I mistakenly deleted the certbot-auto directory

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Hello,

Our server works with certificates delivered by let’s encrypt since 2017, at this time (2017) we had debian 7 this version of debian does not have a packaged version of certbot, so, I downloaded and installed certbot-auto by following the instructions given in the documentation specific to my type of web server and my operating system. Yesterday, I mistakenly deleted the certbot-auto directory that was in “/ root” directory and now I do not know what to do, I usually execute the following commands:
/root/certbot-auto/certificates to see the list of certificates
and
/root/certbot-auto/renew to renew one of the two certificates

what should I do? should I reinstall certbot?

My web server is apache

The operating system my web server runs on is Debian 9

We have a dedicated server

I can login to a root shell on my machine

The version of my client is (Ie.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): I can’t execute these commandes since certbot-auto is deleted

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Hi @pipa_85

the answer is simple: Reinstall certbot-auto.

May be you have to recreate your certificates.

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There seems to be a extra "/" after each certbot-auto
[unless you made shortcut commands for those]

Agreed: Reinstall it in the same place and you should be fine.

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Hello,

First, thank you for your answers.
No, there are only one “/” after each “certbot-auto”
To install certbot-auto on Debian 7 I did the following :
1 / I executed the command below to download certbot-auto:
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod a+x certbot-auto
2 / then, to install it, I executed this command:
./certbot-auto

Can I repeat the same procedure to install certbot-auto on Debian 9?

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Nobody knows your system. So try it - then you see if it works.

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@pipa_85, this method is appropriate for installing certbot-auto on any system where certbot-auto works.

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