Need help with certbot on httpd24

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My domain is: monitoring.neurones-it.asia

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
No names were found in your configuration files. Please enter in your domain
name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter ‘c’ to cancel): monitoring.neurones-it.asia
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for monitoring.neurones-it.asia
Cleaning up challenges
Error while running apachectl graceful.

Job for httpd.service invalid.

Unable to restart apache using [‘apachectl’, ‘graceful’]
Error while running apachectl restart.

Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status httpd.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

Encountered exception during recovery:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/error_handler.py”, line 125, in _call_registered
self.funcs-1
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py”, line 243, in _cleanup_challenges
self.auth.cleanup(achalls)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py”, line 2530, in cleanup
self.restart()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py”, line 2400, in restart
self._reload()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py”, line 2427, in _reload
raise errors.MisconfigurationError(error)
MisconfigurationError: Error while running apachectl restart.

Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status httpd.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is currently needed for Certbot to prove to the CA that you control your domain. Please add a virtual host for port 80.

My web server is (include version): httpd24

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): centos 7

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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 1.5.0

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What does this show:

sudo apachectl configtest
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initially showed this :
AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::ba:39ff:fe89:2d72. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Syntax OK

changed the httpd.conf file and now it only shows this :
Syntax OK

Thank _az for trying to help…
i was able to follow the breadcrumbs provided by the errors and get SSL working.

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