{"id":524,"date":"2018-03-24T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2018-03-24T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T14:24:53","slug":"certbot-wont-renew-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/certbot-wont-renew-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Certbot won&#8217;t renew certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certbot wouldn&#8217;t renew the cert for my domain.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to venture into the certbot config files (\/etc\/letsencrypt\/ by default) and remove the renewal file so that I could reinstall the cert from scratch:<\/p>\n<pre>rm \/etc\/letsencrypt\/www.joetannorella.com.conf<\/pre>\n<p>However, when trying to reinstall a cert again (certbot renew), I was getting this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">renewal config file {} is missing a required file reference<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"s1\">Renewal configuration file \/etc\/letsencrypt\/renewal\/www.joetannorella.com.conf is broken. Skipping.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">The mistake I made was not removing all traces of my domain from letscrypt. What you need to do is remove all references to your domain in these locations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">\/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/[yourdomain]<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\/etc\/letsencrypt\/renewal\/[yourdomain]<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\/etc\/letsencrypt\/archive\/[yourdomain]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve done this, you should be able to install a cert again from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certbot wouldn&#8217;t renew the cert for my domain. I decided to venture into the certbot config files (\/etc\/letsencrypt\/ by default) and remove the renewal file so that I could reinstall the cert from scratch: rm \/etc\/letsencrypt\/www.joetannorella.com.conf However, when trying to reinstall a cert again (certbot renew), I was getting this: renewal config file {} is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Certbot won&#039;t renew certificate - JoeTannorella.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/certbot-wont-renew-certificate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Certbot won&#039;t renew certificate - JoeTannorella.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Certbot wouldn&#8217;t renew the cert for my domain. 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