Unable to renew certbot certificate

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Hi Guy,

first i will tell you my website
it is made of using php and mysql with apache server.

I have tried to renew certificate but it is getting below error.

Attempting to renew cert (simpaenergy.in) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/simpaenergy.in.conf produced an unexpected error: Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is currently needed for Certbot to prove to the CA that you control your domain. Please add a virtual host for port 80… Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/simpaenergy.in/fullchain.pem (failure)

** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates below have not been saved.)

All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/simpaenergy.in/fullchain.pem (failure)
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates above have not been saved.)

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It seems you have made some changes since your last renewal.
Cerbot can’t find the virtual host that handles simpaenergy.in
Please show the output of:
apachectl -S

or you are on the wrong system.
Is the external IP 3.6.45.236 ?

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ubuntu@ip-172-31-17-134:~$ apachectl -S
AH00526: Syntax error on line 37 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default-le-ss l.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file ‘/etc/letsencrypt/live/simpaenergy.in/fullchain.pem’ do es not exist or is empty
Action ‘-S’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

4

run certbot update_symlinks and retry.

if that fails, run a2dissite 000-default-le-ssl and then run certbot --dry-run

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But my certificate is not expired yet but i received an email it will expire on 8th april.
Should i do this renew process or to wait till 8th april.

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You are supposed to renew certificates when they have one third of their validity left, so 90/3 = 30 days before expiration.

The emails start coming 20 days before expiry. You should renew anytime from day 60 to day 88; 88-90 becomes risky.

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