The nginx plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration. The error was: MisconfigurationError

Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is:
aspirehosting.in (db.aspirehosting.in)
I ran this command:
certbot certonly --nginx -d db.aspirehosting.in
It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):
nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
ubuntu 22
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):
does this mean like proxmox and such?
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 1.21.0

Hi @GreenArrow99, and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:


Does that file exist?
If not, what happened to it? Can it be restored?

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Hello there, thanks for the welcome.
This is my first time so I don't really know what's happening. A friend told me I had to move the file from somewhere and that's all I know.

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You should not touch any of the file within the /etc/letsencrypt/ directories.
You should have been instructed to COPY the file NOT MOVE it.

What shows?:
certbot certificates

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I see,
also sorry for the late response, I was out.
this is what I see

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I would edit the vhost that is using the missing file.
Point it to the files from either of those two certs [if they exist].
Then reobtain the missing cert and reinstall it [or manually edit the vhost to point to that new cert].

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oh well I have no idea what that means, I'm completely new to this stuff

Show the output of:
nginx -T

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Catch-22.

Do you know your way around a text editor?

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what exactly do I need to do with a text editor?

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ya I don't understand that. I'll need to ask a experienced person to help me.

Can you locate which is the vhost file that handles the domain name in question?

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