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 :)
5 Answers
I was trying to create Let's Encrypt certificate using certbot for my sub-domain and had the following issue. Command:
ubuntu@localhost:~$ 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+
ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx
Earlier Versions
ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
You will need to replace
apt install python-certbot-nginx
by
apt install python3-certbot-nginx
You can install the Certbot nginx plugin with the following commands:
add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt update
apt install python-certbot-nginx
You have to re-install a python3 version of Lets Encrypt's certbot.
Run
sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx
On Debian 10, certbot returns a "could not find a usable nginx binary" issue because, "/usr/sbin" is missing from the PATH. Add /usr/sbin to the PATH
export PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
Then certbot can make a certificate for nginx
certbot --nginx -d <server name> --post-hook "/usr/sbin/service nginx restart"
As explained on the debian wiki page for letsencrypt.
