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Hi,<br />
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I have a 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificate securing my website which failed to auto-renew this morning. I installed it onto my digitalocean server using the tutorial provided by them at the point of setup. It included the setting up of a cron-job that should auto-renew the certificate before it ran out but this has failed giving the following error: - <br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-29015159-1">All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.example.com.conf</code></pre>
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Is it best to simply re-install a new certificate? What's the best way to proceed?<br />
<br />
J
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Hi,

I have a 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificate securing my website which failed to auto-renew this morning. I installed it onto my digitalocean server using the tutorial provided by them at the point of setup. It included the setting up of a cron-job that should auto-renew the certificate before it ran out but this has failed giving the following error: - 

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Is it best to simply re-install a new certificate? What's the best way to proceed?

J

Let's Encrypt - Auto Renew Failure via Cron Job

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