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Best practices for setting a cron job for Let's Encrypt (Certbot) renewal?

Is this correct way to set cron for renewal of Let's Encrypt cert in Apache2 ? I use Ubuntu 16.04. @monthly letsencrypt renew && service apache2 reload
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How to totally remove a certbot-created SSL certificate?

I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx and I've installed Nginx Certbot on my operating system (Ubuntu 16.04) with: apt-get update -y add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot -y apt-get update -y apt-get upgrade python-certbot-nginx -y I setted Nginx…
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Certbot letsencrypt on different port than 443

I want to set up certbot for a webserver on a different port than 443. I got the following error when running certbot --apache -d .. Failed authorization procedure. sub.domain.ext (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The…
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How to install Certbot on Amazon Linux EC2

I have an Amazon EC2 box. I have installed Apache, MariaDb and PHP on it. Among other things, I want to host a couple of WordPress websites on the EC2. How do I go about installing Certbot on Amazon Linux so that I may issue SSL certificates for the…
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Renew domains using certbot and using DNS challenge

I created several SSL certificates for several domains using the standalone method. I am only interested in the certificates, without server integration. They are now for renewal. So, I ran: certbot -d example.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns…
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Why does my Let's Encrypt certificate contain references to Cloudflare?

I own a website that uses a Let's Encrypt certificate. It's not behind Cloudflare, it's hosted at OVH and I'm accepting direct traffic from it. Now, I set up an apache2 webserver and used certbot to automatically generate a certificate. The problem…
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certbot for letsencrypt missing pyopenssl module

I need help setting up the CertBot for LetsEncrypt I am running on CentOS 7 with Python 2.7 When I run certbot I get the following error: [root@li86-193 frappe-bench]#certbot certonly --manual Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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nginx "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" after add ssl

After i add Let's Encrypt certificate to my website with CertBot i get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when i try to visit the domain of my website. some info : -mywebsite build with django, nginx and gunicorn. server { server_name www.example.com…
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nginx https www redirect to non-www using let's encrypt certbot

Hi this must be a basic question but I haven't seen an answer with cerbot considerations (if there are any considerations). How do I get https www to redirect to non-www instead of timing out? The https www version of my site times out instead of…
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Failing to install certbot on debian jessie

I've followed the instructions at https://certbot.eff.org/all-instructions/#debian-8-jessie-nginx but cannot install certbot: sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install certbot Reading package lists... Done E: The value 'jessie-backports' is invalid…
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Explain Certbot's HTTPS redirect configuration

Can someone explain why Certbot is using the following redirect configuration server { if ($host = example.com) { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } # managed by Certbot server_name example.com; listen 80; return…
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Certbot fails with AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Locale'

I setup a new server a couple of months ago, running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I successfully installed certbot and created my certificates using the cloudflare DNS plugin. It's now getting to be time for renewal, but when I run certbot renew (or various…
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Letsencrypt for all subdomains *.example.com

I'd like to obtain one certificate working for all my subdomains *.example.com. This works: certbot-auto certonly --webroot --webroot-path /home/www/example/ --domain example.com --domain www.example.com --email…
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How to query DNS for special **NAMED** TXT records

I am using certbot to generate a ssl certificate for a third party web app. Because I cannot get into the source code or folder structure, I am using DNS validation. To further complicate things, my DNS provider does not make it clear when the…
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How to migrate letsencrypt renewal from apache2 to nginx

I inherited a very new magento configuration from a previous employee (who left for another job) where I currently work. The original Magento was set up with v2.1.8 but I have had to update/upgrade the installation a number of times as the…
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