Multiple issues with renewal

[backcountrybeta]

I’m trying to renew my certificate. I started with the simple certbot renewal. It noted an error binding to port 80 so I tried adding the hooks to stop and start apache. Neither of these worked. I’ve currently hit the rate limit so I’m trying --dry-run for now but I get a new error below:

My domain is: backcountry-beta.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:

Attempting to renew cert (backcountry-beta.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/backcountry-beta.com.conf produced an unexpected error: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:malformed :: The request message was malformed :: Method not allowed. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/backcountry-beta.com/fullchain.pem (failure)

My web server is (include version): Apache2

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18.04

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): 0.31

[stevenzhu]

Hi,

Please update your certbot before continue request certificate.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Thank you

[backcountrybeta]

Ok, I ran an update but not upgrade. After running that, then renewing with the start and stop hooks, followed by restarting apache, it worked! Thanks so much for your help.

[stevenzhu]

Glad it worked.

The version you on is released around Feb 2019 and Let’s Encrypt undergo some changes…and the latest certbot version is 1.0.0… (it’s always great to check updates )