Renew not working :-(

[RyanSinger]

ryan@bhcwebhost:~$ letsencrypt renew
An unexpected error occurred:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log’
Please see the logfile ‘letsencrypt.log’ for more details.
ryan@bhcwebhost:~$ sudo letsencrypt renew
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/blockchainhealth.co.conf
2016-05-16 18:20:08,896:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_enmod’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,897:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_dismod’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,897:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_handle_modules’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,897:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_handle_sites’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,897:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_challenge_location’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,898:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_server_root’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,898:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_init_script’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,898:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_ctl’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,898:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_le_vhost_ext’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,899:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Missing default analysis for 'apache_vhost_root’
2016-05-16 18:20:08,917:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/blockchainhealth.co.conf produced an unexpected error: The requested apache plugin does not appear to be installed. Skipping.

All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/blockchainhealth.co/fullchain.pem (failure)
1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

[schoen]

Hi @RyanSinger, as the error says, you seem not to have the apache plugin for the client installed; could you describe how you installed the client, what version you have, and whether you’ve changed anything since you originally got that certificate?

[RyanSinger]

I’ve upgraded Ubuntu with the new release. Maybe that reset my apache installation. What should I do?

[schoen]

@RyanSinger, how did you install the client? Did you use the Ubuntu package?

[RyanSinger]

That was the problem. I was attempting to renew with the ubuntu packages, when I had downloaded it originally in my home directory. I just renewed successfully with the letsencrypt-auto script. Problem over. Thanks for your help!