Date: 2019may30 OS: Linux Q. Certbot error: apachectl: The "-v" option is not supported. Attempting to renew cert (example.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/example.com.conf produced an unexpected error: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration. The error was: PluginError("Unable to run ['apachectl', '-v'] -v"). Skipping. All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed: /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem (failure) 1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s) A. Looks like apachectl doesn't support -v any more. This problem will likely be fixed soon, in the mean time I renewed via:

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You are asked some questions. I asked not to have it spinup a temporary webserver since I already have apache. It then asked me the webroot where it placed a file for verification. My cert in the usual place was updated.