Renewal fail: None of the preferred challenges are supported

My domain is: hoosierstatesportsbooks.com

I ran this command: certbot renew --preferred-challenges http

It produced this output:
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Plugins selected: Authenticator dns-digitalocean, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
Attempting to renew cert (hoosierstatesportsbooks.com-0001) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/hoosierstatesportsbooks.com-0001.conf produced an unexpected error: None of the preferred challenges are supported by the selected plugin. Skipping.


Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/hoosierstatesportsbooks.com.conf


Cert not yet due for renewal
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/hoosierstatesportsbooks.com-0001/fullchain.pem (failure)

My web server is (include version): Apache 2.4

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digitalocean

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):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot 0.31.0

The creation host domain is no longer used and has been deleted via certbot. Renewal for hoosierstatesportsbooks.com is failing with above error and not sure how to fix.

Thanks in advance

Hi @joeker

you use a dns authenticator:

So you can't use http validation.

Use only

certbot renew

Wow... I feel dumb for not trying that. Thank you again for the fast and speedy support

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