Trying to renew with Apache2, should be Nginx

[Jedi]

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My domain is: www.odysseytours.nz

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:sudo certbot renew
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/mail.odysseytours.nz.conf

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Cert not yet due for renewal

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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/odysseytours.nz.conf

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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Error while running apache2ctl configtest.
Action ‘configtest’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 198: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /usr/sbin/apache2: not found

Could not choose appropriate plugin: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: MisconfigurationError(“Error while running apache2ctl configtest.\nAction ‘configtest’ failed.\nThe Apache error log may have more information.\n\n/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 198: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /usr/sbin/apache2: not found\n”,)
Attempting to renew cert (odysseytours.nz) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/odysseytours.nz.conf produced an unexpected error: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: MisconfigurationError(“Error while running apache2ctl configtest.\nAction ‘configtest’ failed.\nThe Apache error log may have more information.\n\n/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 198: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /usr/sbin/apache2: not found\n”,). Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/odysseytours.nz/fullchain.pem (failure)

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The following certs are not due for renewal yet:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.odysseytours.nz/fullchain.pem expires on 2019-02-19 (skipped)
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/odysseytours.nz/fullchain.pem (failure)

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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

My web server is (include version): nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)

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

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):Cinnamon desktop installed

I do not have Apache2 installed so dont understand why it is trying to renew with Apache2.
Does anyone know where the switch is to make it renew with Nginx?
Thank you.

[_az]

@Jedi

I do not have Apache2 installed so dont understand why it is trying to renew with Apache2.

Probably because you used to use Apache at some point in the past. I do not think there is any way it would do this on its own.

grep -R apache /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/

@Jedi

Does anyone know where the switch is to make it renew with Nginx?

You can try:

certbot renew --cert-name odysseytours.nz --nginx

If you run it this way, it will permanently save the selection.