Fix Letsencrypt on webextra

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Letsencrypt on webextra was broken as wildintellect pointed out since notice for europe.foss4g.org was sent that it was about to expire.

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The issue of what went wrong it output in this issue on certbot

​https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/6824

and there were many suggestions there of what to do.

Basically the old syntax for pip is: pip install somepackage The new syntax is : pip -m install somepackage

and unfortunately since Debian7 is EOL'd which is what is running on webextra, the pip needs old syntax. That said pip wasn't even installed, so I stupidly before reading the above, tried to install it with:

apt-get install python-pip

which failed and then doing

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python2.7 get-pip.py

Which still gave me an old pip but at least worked. But anyrate hopefully this did not break anything.

So in the end I downgraded the certbot to the .31 and turned off auto-upgrading using a suggestion from the above issue ticket

/usr/src/letsencrypt/certbot
mv certbot-auto certbot-auto-broken
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/certbot/certbot/75499277be6699fd5a9b884837546391950a3ec9/certbot-auto
chmod +x ./certbot-auto
/usr/src/letsencrypt/certbot/certbot-auto renew --no-self-upgrade

and changed the cronjob to include the --no-self-upgrade switch.

That seemed to do the trick. This is a bandage for now. webextra will just need to be rebuilt which I have on my list.