No Permissions for `var/log`

[Johnny Shankman]

Heyo followed the python virtual env instructions. Got my credentials etc working but I get the following error when I run it:

The following error was encountered:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/letsencrypt'
Either run as root, or set --config-dir, --work-dir, and --logs-dir to writeable paths.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/folders/fg/g81x8hq51l14nnxd6wvg81hr0000gn/T/certbot-log-cnv0ol78/log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

Two questions for my own sanity:

1. Is this referring to local folders? Ie in my virtual python environment?
2. If not, I do not have var/log on my server in godaddy. Only logs. So where is this log going?

[Johnny Shankman]

In the docker instructions you have

You may want to change the volumes /var/lib/letsencrypt and /etc/letsencrypt to local directories where the certificates and configuration should be stored

On which machine? Server or my machine?

[Johnny Shankman]

Solved.

Answer was my machine needs these folders with write perms in the virtual env. Solved by doing the following:

1. Create logs directory in the venv
2. Create three directories inside of it, config-dir, logs-dir, and work-dir
3. Add these flags so that it writes to them:

--config-dir logs/config-dir   --work-dir logs/work-dir   --logs-dir logs/logs-dir

I suppose this makes sense, we store the files locally then use the godaddy api to push them up to the servers or something I presume.