It’s been a while since I needed to manually generate a Let’s Encrypt certificate. And God bless Certbot. However, it took no time to stumble upon a problem. So, today’s week issue is: The requested Nginx plugin does not appear to be installed.
Prerequisites
- Nginx
- Certbot
Solution
The basic Ubuntu solution:
sudo apt-get install -y python3-certbot-nginx
Fedora / CentOS 8:
sudo dnf install -y python3-certbot-nginx
CentOS 6 / 7:
sudo yum install -y python3-certbot-nginx
Note: In case python3-certbot-nginx doesn’t work, try replacing it with python-certbot-nginx.
Conclusion
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