Issues when using with nginx compiled from source

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Hello,

I ran this command:
sudo certbot --nginx

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
NGINX derivative
built by gcc 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix= is not officially supported by certbot
An unexpected error occurred:
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘’
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.

My web server is (include version):
nginx-1.16.1

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 16.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
NA

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):
N/A

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

More Details:

  1. Installed https://certbot.eff.org/ from instructions provided
  2. Compiled nginx from source
  3. Nginx is running fine and VHost is enabled and accessible
  4. But when ran certbot, giving above mentioned issue
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Can you run sudo nginx -V and share the outputs?
I also used self-compiled Nginx and never had a issue.

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nginx version:
built by gcc 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --user=nginx --group=nginx --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-openssl=…/openssl-1.1.1g --with-openssl-opt=enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 --with-openssl-opt=no-nextprotoneg --with-openssl-opt=no-weak-ssl-ciphers --with-openssl-opt=no-ssl3 --with-pcre=…/pcre-8.44 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=…/zlib-1.2.11 --with-compat --with-file-aio --with-threads --with-http_addition_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_v2_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-stream --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-debug --add-module=…/headers-more-nginx-module-0.33

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Double checking and it seems like there’s an known issue with certbot Nginx. How to change nginx config path

Pinging @schoen for any update.

You might want to open an issue with certbot team at https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues

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