Could not renew letsencrypt certificate error 'The manual plugin is not working'

Question

I have obtained a certificate through let's encrypt with the following command:

sudo certbot certonly --manual -d *.domain.com --agree-tos --no-bootstrap
--manual-public-ip-logging-ok --preferred-challenges dns-01 --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

When I try to renew the certificate now with sudo certbot renew I stumble upon the following error:

Could not choose appropriate plugin: The manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.

The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',)
Attempting to renew cert (domain.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/domain.com.conf produced an unexpected error: The manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.

The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',). Skipping. All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem (failure)

Do I need to enter additional options in the command or is this feature not yet supported?

Answer 1

I had the same problem...

You don't have to renew Certificate with "renew" option. You have to run the same command you ran for Certificate creation.

It detects your Certificate needs renew, and it will ask you the new DNS record "_acme-challenge" modification. You must change record as it will tell you, and continue and Voila: Certificate will renew next three months.