Renew certbot is no longer working?

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My domain is:blog.usorgames.com

I ran this command:sudo letsencrypt renew

It produced this output: Critical: letsencrypt.auth_handler: client does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy they CA.
Warning: letsencrypt.cli: Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/blog.usorgames.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Client doesn’t support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA… Skipping.

My web server is (include version):

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

Can you answer the other questions, and paste the contents of /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/blog.usorgames.com.conf?

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Here is the rest of the question answers:
My web server is (include version): Apache - I installed LAMP, then i installed word press.

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digital Ocean

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): I didn’t use cerbot, i just renew SSL manually.

the output of /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/blog.usorgames.com.conf is:

csr = None
redirect = None
verbose_count = -3
config_file = None
hsts = False
apache_handle_sites = True
apache_handle_modules = True
logs_dir = /var/log/letsencrypt
rsa_key_size = 2048
manual_test_mode = False
apache = False
cert_path = None
webroot_path = ,
expand = False
strict_permissions = False
apache_server_root = /etc/apache2
chain_path = None
break_my_certs = False
webroot = False
os_packages_only = False
user_agent = None
apache_ctl = None
domains = blog.usorgames.com, www.blog.usorgames.com
[[webroot_map]]

This is a VERY old version of Certbot, probably from several years ago.

Various newer versions of Certbot: (1) are named Certbot instead of letsencrypt :slight_smile:, (2) indicate their version in the renewal configuration file, (3) don’t save all of this extraneous information in the renewal configuration, (4) can pass the current CA challenges correctly! – All unlike the version that you have installed.

Please update your Certbot.

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