Unable to renew

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My domain is: orateldiagnostics

I ran this command:
sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/orateldiagnostics.com.conf


Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for orateldiagnostics.com
http-01 challenge for www.orateldiagnostics.com
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (orateldiagnostics.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/orateldiagnostics.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Missing command line flag or config entry for this setting:
Select the webroot for www.orateldiagnostics.com:
Choices: [‘Enter a new webroot’, ‘/var/www/html/orateldiagnostics.com’]

(You can set this with the --webroot-path flag). Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/orateldiagnostics.com/fullchain.pem (failure)


All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/orateldiagnostics.com/fullchain.pem (failure)


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

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

certbot 0.31.0

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It looks like you may have run into this Certbot bug: Certbot drops webroot options from renewal configuration file · Issue #7048 · certbot/certbot · GitHub

I think this should fix your issue for you:

sudo certbot renew --cert-name orateldiagnostics.com \
--webroot -w /var/www/html/orateldiagnostics.com
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The worked. Thanks for the help. Will this method need to be used for the next renew or will the renew command alone be enough.

Thanks!!

I’m not sure - maybe mark a calendar task for 60 days from now to check it. The issue on the bug tracker isn’t very clear about under what conditions this problem happens.

The bugfix is included in Certbot >=0.35.0, which isn’t yet available for Ubuntu 18.04.

I think the issue happens when Certbot reuses an authorization.

If that’s true, nothing should go wrong if you just renew every 2 months, since you’ll always be getting new authzs.

The dangerous actions would be --force-renewal, or --expand, or issuing duplicate certificates in other ways.

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