Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com ), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secr…

It seems the nginx configuration was already “damaged” prior to running certbot. These are from the certbot User Guide : Authenticators are plugins used with the certonly command to obtain a certificate. The authenticator validates that you control the domain(s) you are requesting a certificate f…

[image] hamdani: nginx: [error] invalid PID number “” in “/run/nginx.pid” Looks like a previously started nginx instance was killed somehow, but not cleanly, and left a previous PID number in /run/nginx.pid. Does your nginx even start regardless of certbot?

No. It gives the following error: root@ip-172-31-17-82:/# service nginx start Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status nginx.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

[image] Osiris: Looks like a previously started nginx instance was killed somehow, but not cleanly, and left a previous PID number in /run/nginx.pid . Does your nginx even start regardless of certbot? I had stopped it myself before trying to install, using command Systemctl stop nginx :-/ an…

I am so sorry but I have to say I am a little new to all this. All I know is that I had another domain working perfectly with a SSL. Than I changed the domain so wanted to install new certificate. Previously when I installed, I had to stop nginx service. that’s what i did this time also before runni…

[image] rg305: So what was the last thing that changed? I change the site-available configuration, added server_name (new domain); Stopped nginx and now in this problem

Retrace your editing steps. Perhaps there is a TYPO in there somewhere. Or try: [image] hamdani: See “systemctl status nginx.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

I restarted the Instance on EC2 and nginx started, Got the certificate confirmation also. But now when I am accessing the website it shows the certifcate for the previous domain instead of a new one. Resulting in google Warning.

[image] Website Using Old Domain Certificate. Not Accessible Help P…

Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com ), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secr…

Nginx wont start after trying to get new Certifcate

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