SSL Renew Issue

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I ran this command:certbot-auto renew

It produced this output:certbot-auto: command not found

My web server is (include version):Apache…

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

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):Command not found

This is my output and what im seeing

  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ cd /etc/letsencrypt/
  • unifiuser@unifi:/etc/letsencrypt$ ls
  • accounts archive csr keys live renewal renewal-hooks
  • unifiuser@unifi:/etc/letsencrypt$ cd
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ ls
  • certbot-auto unifi-import-cert.sh
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ certbot-auto -renew
  • certbot-auto: command not found
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ certbot-auto renew
  • certbot-auto: command not found
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ certbot-auto --version
  • certbot-auto: command not found
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ certbot-auto version
  • certbot-auto: command not found
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ cd /etc/letsencrypt/
  • unifiuser@unifi:/etc/letsencrypt$ ls
  • accounts archive csr keys live renewal renewal-hooks
  • unifiuser@unifi:/etc/letsencrypt$ cd
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$ letsencrypte renew
  • No command ‘letsencrypte’ found, did you mean:
  • Command ‘letsencrypt’ from package ‘letsencrypt’ (universe)
  • letsencrypte: command not found
  • unifiuser@unifi:~$

Cert is going to expire soon, can anyone help me?

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Might want to check with your network administrator since the program is not being found in the search path and needs to be added.

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When you use certbot-auto, you normally download it into some particular directory. Then you would normally run it from that directory with ./certbot-auto.

Unix systems normally don’t let you run programs from your current directory unless you explicitly add the ./ at the beginning. So for most programs you’ve downloaded yourself, you’ll need the ./ in order to tell your shell that you really want to run a program out of the current directory.

If you don’t remember where you downloaded this program, you might try locate certbot-auto, or look at your shell history with history.

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In my post i did an ls in the directory i am in and it shows that certbot-auto is there in that directory. My ssl cert shows that it was verified by Let’s Encrypt but no matter what commands i run it does not recognize them.

All i am doing is trying to get the SSL Cert to renew, if i have to rip it out and put a new one in then i will just need to research how to remove it and re add it.

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Right, but you said you ran certbot-auto renew; as I discussed above, the correct command would probably be ./certbot-auto renew. The ./ at the beginning is likely to be mandatory.

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See, for example,

for a description of the need for the ./ to run a program from the current directory on Unix systems.

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