I’ve tried setting up nginx with certbot on guix. Two immediate issues: - certbot extends the nginx service to serve challenge files. It appears that this nginx service extension conflicts (silently) with an independently configured nginx service. I.e., I had nginx previously configured, and after adding certbot, my previous nginx kept running with the previous configuration (even after herd restart nginx), while there was an additional nginx config in the gnu store with the certbot-specific fragments. certbot activation called nginx to test that fragment, but apparently never started nginx (successfully?). There were no errors.
After removing the stand-alone nginx service and restarting nginx, it started with the certbot configuration. - After this, /var/lib/certbot/renew worked successfully to register a certificate, but then failed when calling the nginx deploy hook that I’d copied from the guix certbot documentation, because /var/run/nginx/pid doesn’t exist. That might be a bug in the nginx package, not sure. I can’t find an nginx pid file anywhere, and no other errors related to it either, even though the config file includes pid /var/run/nginx/pid;