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My domain is: firstchoiceinvst.com
I ran this command: systemctl restart nginx
It produced this output: Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exitedh error code.
See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for dls.
My web server is (include version):
gnu inux 5.4.0 gen x86
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
ubuntu 20.0 lts
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
scala hosting
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
HELP !!! please i need a walkthrough im not so savvy on linux... i installed the certbot tool and the dry run was successful as well as i obtained the lets encrypt cert... i changed the folder permisions and moved the backup of the keys... I although made an error with my domain name in the code linewhile trying to create a symlink for the cert and private keys and for this reason nginx service wont restart.... Here are the commit lines of code I was on before encountering an errr....
root@mail:~# certbot certonly --webroot --dry-run -w /var/www/html -d mail.firstchoiceinvst.com
root@mail:~# certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/html -d mail.fi rstchoiceinvst.com
root@mail:~# chmod 0644 /etc/letsencrypt/{live,archive}
root@mail:~# mv /etc/ssl/certs/iRedMail.crt{,.bak}
root@mail:~# mv /etc/ssl/private/iRedMail.key{,.bak}
root@mail:~# ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.firstchoiceinvst.com/ fullchain.pem /etc/ssl/certs/iRedMail.crt
root@mail:~# ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.fistchoiceinvst.com/privkey.pem /etc/ssl/private/iRedMail.key <<<(this is where i made the error with my domain name spelling for the folder)
root@mail:~# systemctl restart dovecot
root@mail:~# systemctl restart postfix
root@mail:~# systemctl restart nginx
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for detai ls.
Please help me i'm on tight schedule to deliver and this is the last steps towards finalizing a fully setup email server. Muchas gracias.