Wednesday, March 13, 2024

certbot did not auto-renew a domain - it had expired

Even manually trying to renew a domain's SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt, which had not been auto-renewed, did not work. 

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
  Domain: theconcerneddomain.ours
  Type:   unauthorized

Checking the DNS, found the relevant domain was pointing to a godaddy ip address instead of our ip address. Then, checked the whois record and found that the domain had expired. Alerted the concerned person, they renewed the domain, and a few hours later, certbot auto-renewed the SSL certificate, too.

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