The request message was malformed :: Method not allowed

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My domain is:11 domains

I ran this command: certbot renew --dry-run
certbot certonly --webroot -w /bla/bla/webroot -d somedomain.com --dry-run

It produced this output:Attempting to renew cert from/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/somedomain.com.conf produced an unexpected error: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:malformed :: The request message was malformed :: Method not allowed. Skipping.

My web server is (include version): nginx and varnish

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):Centos 7

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 version: certbot 0.36.0

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The latest version of Certbot available for CentOS 7 is 0.39.0. Upgrading using these instructions: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/centosrhel7-nginx

Even so, 0.36.0 should not have this problem.

Could you also check this:

rpm -q python2-acme
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Thank you for your prompt reply.

rpm -q python2-acme
python2-acme-0.31.0-1.el7.noarch

The instructions you gave me are for installation, not for upgrade of certbot.

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There's no difference, since you installed Certbot originally from the same source. yum install will perform an upgrade if the package already exists.

There is your problem. The specific issue you are suffering from was fixed in 0.31.0-2.

You could potentially just upgrade that package with:

yum -y install python2-acme

but I would be wary about other outdated dependencies. Better to upgrade everything.

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Thank you! I will try all these and update this issue.

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Running

yum install certbot python2-certbot-nginx
yum install python2-acme

solved the problem.

Thanks again!!! :wink:

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