The requested dns-route53 plugin does not appear to be installed

[niujh]

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My domain is:hqyc1973.com

I ran this command:sudo certbot certonly --dns-route53 -d from-dawn.com --agree-tos -m myemail@somemail.com -n

It produced this output:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The requested dns-route53 plugin does not appear to be installed
The requested dns-route53 plugin does not appear to be installed

My web server is (include version):Cherrypy

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:AWS

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 1.14.0

I'm experimenting with the command line installation with plugins. I'm sure I've installed that plugin using pip3 install certbot-dns-route53
But certbot doesn't seem to recognize this.

[stevenzhu]

@niujh

I'm experimenting with the command line installation with plugins. I'm sure I've installed that plugin using pip3 install certbot-dns-route53

Did you forget that the new certbot is installed via snap? The instructions on certbot.eff.org will tell you to also install the DNS plugins using snap.

Edit a bit: In case someone would say I'm hostile, I said this because we guided the OP through replacing his old certbot pip installation with snap-based one in previous threads.

[niujh]

Hi Steve, no please don't feel that this is anything unfriendly.
I think it is a good thing to clarify this, only because there is currently a lot of unofficial articles that sometimes can be misleading. A simple google search would easily lead us newbie users to something "pip...", instead of "snap...".

Very appreciate that you helped clarify this. Thank you.