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Issue using certbot with nginx

I'm actually working on a webapp, I use Reactjs for the frontend and Golang for the backend. Those 2 programs are hosted separately on 2 VMs on Google-Compute-Engine. I want to serve my app through https so I choose to use Nginx for serving the frontend in production. Firstly I made my config file for Nginx:

#version: nginx/1.14.0 (ubuntu)
server {
     listen 80 default_server;
     listen [::]:80 default_server;

     root /var/www/banshee;
     server_name XX.XXX.XX.XXX; #public IP of my frontend VM

     index index.html;

     location / {
       try_files $uri /index.html =404;
     }
   }

For this part everything works as expected but after that I want to serve my App over https following this tutorial. I installed the packages software-properties-common,python-certbot-apache and certbot but when I tried

sudo cerbot --nginx certonly

I get the following message: 

gdes@frontend:/etc/nginx$ sudo certbot --nginx certonly
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The requested nginx plugin does not appear to be installed
The requested nginx plugin does not appear to be installed

I made some searches on Google and here and I still can't figure out which plugin is missing or an other way to fix this.

Does someone have an idea tohelp me ?

Thanks a lot :)

Solution

  • I was trying to create Let's Encrypt certificate using certbot for my sub-domain and had the following issue.

    Command:

    certbot --nginx -d my_subdomain.website.com -d my_subdomain2.website.com

    Issue:

    The requested Nginx plugin does not appear to be installed

    Solution:

    Ubuntu 20+

    sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx

    Earlier Versions

    sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx