Error on installing letsencrypt

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Hello guys, i am having trouble installing lets encrypt on my server.
it is VPS with Ubuntu 20, ERPNext with Bench Manager all installed and perfectly working, i have multiple sites the default one is erpnext.techmark.cloud rest of sites are are routed in deferent ports.
when i run sudo -H bench setup lets-encrypt erpnext.techmark.cloud i get this error msg.

erpnext@vmi477494:/opt/bench/erpnext$ sudo -H bench setup lets-encrypt erpnext.techmark.cloud
[sudo] password for erpnext:
Running this will stop the nginx service temporarily causing your sites to go offline
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
$ sudo systemctl stop nginx
$ /opt/certbot-auto --config /etc/letsencrypt/configs/erpnext.techmark.cloud.cfg certonly
Skipping bootstrap because certbot-auto is deprecated on this system.
WARNING: couldn’t find Python 2.7+ to check for updates.
Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.
Certbot cannot be installed.
Please visit https://certbot.eff.org/ to check for other alternatives.
nginx.conf already exists and this will overwrite it. Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
$ sudo systemctl start nginx
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status nginx.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

i worked alot and found the error with missing the certificate files. means they are not generated except all other commands implemented but ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/erpnext.techmark.cloud/fullchain.pem; and ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/erpnext.techmark.cloud/privkey.pem; files are missing in general the whole /etc/letsencrypt/live folder is missing and there is no folder with such a name even i searched the certificate files and nothing is found. now my sites are not opening and i need to get back even if possible i am willing to undo the letsencrypt installation but i did not found anyway to do that. can someone help me out here.

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Not sure about the error, but this may help to get your sites working again:

  • Check your site_config.json resp. common_site_config.json and delete everything regarding the ssl certificate
  • bench setup nginx
  • sudo service nginx restart
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can you please tell me where it is located ?

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frappe-bench/sites/common_site_config.json or
frappe-bench/sites/{{ site_name }}/site_config.json

More information: Using Let's Encrypt to setup HTTPS

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erpnext@vmi477494:/opt/bench/erpnext$ bench setup nginx
WARN: bench is installed in editable mode!

This is not the recommended mode of installation for production. Instead, install the package from PyPI with: pip install frappe-bench

nginx.conf already exists and this will overwrite it. Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y

WARNING: The site config for the site erpnext.techmark.cloud is broken. If you want this command to fail, instead of just showing a warning, You may add the ‘strict_nginx’ flag to common_site_config.json and set it to 1

WARNING: The site config for the site erpnext.mediamark.biz is broken. If you want this command to fail, instead of just showing a warning, You may add the ‘strict_nginx’ flag to common_site_config.json and set it to 1

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thanks found the files, did the deleting and did not worked.
Yes i exactly followed installation of lets encrypt according to the link you sent this was were the problem appeared at first.

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Well, it seems something went wrong when you’ve deleted the lines.

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inside your bench folder

nano ~/.bench/bench/config/ lets_encrypt.py

change

def get_certbot_path():
return “/opt/certbot-auto”

into

def get_certbot_path():
# switch to snap certbot - begin

# return "/opt/certbot-auto"

return "/snap/bin/certbot"

# switch to snap certbot - end

sudo apt install snapd

sudo snap install --classic certbot

sudo bench setup lets-encrypt yourSiteName

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That’s one option! What do you think of this?

Please let me know which of these two methods is more robust.

Thanks

Jay

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