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LetsEncrypt Certificate Expired

Forge has always auto-renewed my LetsEncrypt cert but this morning it's expired. Is there a way to manually kick off the certificate renewal script?

Anyone else experienced this issue with Laravel Forge? My server is hosted on DigitalOcean as well.

#mondaymornings

Thanks!

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Loach's avatar

just delete the certificate and install new one. Went through this recently myself.

basherdesigns's avatar

@Loach I just tried that and it bombed.

Something went wrong while we were obtaining a LetsEncrypt certificate. Unfortunately, obtaining LetsEncrypt certificates is a complicated process and many factors could affect the installation process.

Possible causes of this problem could be that the domains you specified for the certificate do not have DNS properly configured to point to this server. Other possible causes include issues while upgrading Python to a recent version of the 2.7.x release family.

The full error output is included below to help diagnose the problem. You may need to manually correct some issues on your server and try recreating the certificate.

My Python version:

python -V Python 2.7.12

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