Issue using certbot with nginx

Question

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 :)

Answer 1

I was trying to create let'sencrypt certificate using certbot for my sub-domain and had following issue. Command :

ubuntu@localhost:~$ certbot --nginx -d my_subdomain.website.com

Issue :

The requested nginx plugin does not appear to be installed

Solution:

Ubuntu 20+

ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx

Earlier Versions

ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx

Answer 2

You will need to replace

apt install python-certbot-nginx 

by

apt install python3-certbot-nginx