While renewing certificate certbot renew --debug getting the below errors:
The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/certbot”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 1364, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 1276, in renew
renewal.handle_renewal_request(config)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/renewal.py”, line 455, in handle_renewal_request
len(renew_failures), len(parse_failures)))
Error: 1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
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My domain is:
I ran this command:
It produced this output:
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):
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert () from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. .com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Fetching http://.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/SF6L4n8JZtovswDrXumDVfqqkkOA61mpCQIDA87j1sg: Connection refused. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/certbot”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 1364, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 1276, in renew
renewal.handle_renewal_request(config)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/renewal.py”, line 455, in handle_renewal_request
len(renew_failures), len(parse_failures)))
Error: 1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
Looking at the output from your command it looks like you try to renew a certificate for the domain .com
That is not an existing domain name, but a TLD
In order to help you we need to know the domain name(s) for which you want to renew the certificate.