Renew outdatet cerfiticate

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My domain is: holger-home.zapto.org

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log


Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/holger-home.zapto.org.conf


Renewal configuration file /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/holger-home.zapto.org.conf is broken.
The error was: expected /etc/letsencrypt/live/holger-home.zapto.org/cert.pem to be a symlink
Skipping.


No renewals were attempted.

Additionally, the following renewal configurations were invalid:
/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/holger-home.zapto.org.conf (parsefail)


0 renew failure(s), 1 parse failure(s)
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version): Server version: Apache/2.4.62 (Debian)

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): 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 2.1.0

Hi. Looks like something/someone wasn't being cautious when working with letsencrypt's directory. I would recommend restoring /etc/letsencrypt from a backup, if available. Otherwise backup the broken directory, delete it, and start over.

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No I have no backup, so I must delete all delete or only live and renewal folder??

Backup the entire (currently broken) /etc/letsencrypt directory, just in case. Delete the entire /etc/letsencrypt directory.

It's just my personal recommendation for the most quick and straightforward solution. If you wish to salvage the existing broken directory—feel free to explicitly request this—other volunteers might be inclined to walk you through the steps to try and recover this mess.

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