certbot was installed and version is 0.32.0. It was working fine, but certificate is expired recently. I want to renew it by using this command
certbot-auto renew
but got command not found issue. Tried 'sudo', same problem.
Any idea on the root cause?
Thanks a lot!
For the auto renew to work, you need to add this renew command to crontab.
To edit the crontab:
crontab -e
This will open a file with crontab configurations.
To configure the cron to execute this command every 12 hours, add the following line:
0 */12 * * * root certbot -q renew --nginx
To know how to configure a different time to run the command, check the crontab references.
For auto renew certbot certificate, the following command working with me.
sudo certbot renew --dry-run
You can check certbot instructions.
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I am trying to obtain an SSL certificate with certbot and the --webroot setting. My current command is:
sudo certbot certonly --webroot -w <path> -d <URL> -d <*.URL>
Every time I run the command I get this error:
Client with the currently selected authenticator does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA. You may need to use an authenticator plugin that can do challenges over DNS.
Client with the currently selected authenticator does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA. You may need to use an authenticator plugin that can do challenges over DNS.
I tried every similar command I found. Please share some help.
I am using ubuntu 18 with the newest certbot version. I also tried certbot-auto
I figured it out: with the http verification (webroot) it is not possible to obtain wildcards (<*.url>).
But it is possible with a DNS challenge (Reference).
Here is an example command for a manual / DNS challenge wildcard certifiat request:
sudo certbot certonly --manual -d *.<domain> -d <domain> --agree-tos --no-bootstrap --manual-public-ip-logging-ok --preferred-challenges dns-01 --server acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
I want to provide some further reading on this for anyone else struggling - and I'll explain why every solution still didn't work!
Great advice from Letsencrypt ...
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/client-with-the-currently-selected-authenticator-an-authenticator-script-must-be-provided-when/153921
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/ - see DNS-01. Basically Certbot has to connect with your DNS provider/api to create temporary records to verify your domain.
BUT ... not all providers allow this ...
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/dns-providers-who-easily-integrate-with-lets-encrypt-dns-validation/86438
And it turns out mine (Namecheap) doesn't. So in short Wildcards + Certbot + Namecheap are not physically possible!
I have to renew Let's Encrypt certificates on my Debian server. By some reason the renew option doesn't works, and nor the certbot-auto script.
This below command works, but asking some questions:
sudo certbot --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory -d *.blogginger.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns-01 certonly
Questions while I'm running this command:
Would you like to redirect HTTP to HTTPS? I choose here option 1
Are you OK with your IP being logged?
and press Enter at the end.
How can I skip these questions? Which parameters should I use with certbot?
Thank you!
The solution was this below command to renew all certificate on the server, included the mentioned certificate as well:
sudo certbot renew
I insert this command in crontab for never forget to renew any certificates:
0 4 * * 0 sudo certbot renew
It will send a request at every early morning of Sunday.
Hide standard output and show only errors by addig "-q" parameter:
sudo certbot renew -q
It seems like letsencrypt have forgotten the options used when generating the certs originally.
If you manually run just certbot, with only the least possible options, and when asked, select the "don't alter apache config" option, I think the options will be saved for next run of certbot-auto renew
I have some security certificates setup on multiple domain variants for my website. I have been following this guide on Bitnami:
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/generate-install-lets-encrypt-ssl/#step-5-renew-the-lets-encrypt-certificate
I managed to create the certificates, but am now trying to renew them with this command:
sudo lego --email="name#email.com" --domains="mydomain.com" --domains="www.mydomain.com" --domains="mydomain.co.uk" --domains="www.mydomain.co.uk" --domains="mydomain.technology" --domains="www.mydomain.technology" --path="/etc/lego” renew
When I run this it just hangs. I get nothing back. Any ideas?
I have a working setup where Let's Encrypt certificates are generated with certbot. I wonder how you effectively test whether the renewal will work in production.
The certificates last for 90 days. Is there a way to reduce the lifespan to, for instance, 10 minutes, to see if the renewal works? (Using the staging system for that is fine.)
If you have an alternative approach how to make sure that your renewal code works (without having to wait for 90 days), it would also be appreciated.
You use the --dry-run option. E.g.:
$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run
From certbot -h:
certbot [SUBCOMMAND] [options] [-d DOMAIN] [-d DOMAIN] ...
...
--dry-run Test "renew" or "certonly" without saving any certificates
to disk
This ensures that the certbot can validate your domain with your current configuration.
If you really want to save the certificates to disk and see if your system is using the new cert, then you can also use the --force-renewal option. In that case, you should visit your website and check that the active certificate is the new one. If it isn't, you likely need to adjust your cronjob to restart your web server. E.g.:
certbot renew && service apache24 restart
You can use "certbot renew --force-renewal"
https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#configuration-file
--force-renewal, --renew-by-default
If a certificate already exists for the requested
domains, renew it now, regardless of whether it is
near expiry. (Often --keep-until-expiring is more
appropriate). Also implies --expand. (default: False)
I'm new to svn and ssh. I'm trying to do svn update of 5 repositories in my local system every 3 hours on crontab.
So, to achieve this I have setup ssh passwordless login using the below steps:
ssh-keygen
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub test#repo.test.in
I did ssh test#repo.test.in
Till here it works fine for me. I'm able to login without password.
But, when I try to do sudo svn update on the 5 repositories, it is propmpting for password.
How to make svn update without password. Is there any way that I can do update of the repositories every 3 hours on cron.
I referred to this, but could not get it.
I'm using
`Ubuntu version : Ubuntu 13.04`
OpenSSH_6.1p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
I can tell you two ways of passing passwords to SVN scripts
You can use expect Click here
or
--non-interactive --no-auth-cache --username XXXX --password YYYY
Check Documentation here