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Unable to set up Letencrypt on forge, keep stuck on "installing".

Hi, my site getting an insecure connection all of the sudden. So I remove the old ssl certificate and wanted to add new certificate. But it keep stuck on "installing" process. Anyone can tell me how to solve this?

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bobbybouwmann's avatar

It might be better to contact Forge itself for support on this. There are a lot of factors of why this is not working as expected. I could be DNS related, it could be configuration related, it could be a problem with Letsencrypt.

I can't really help with so little information!

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Hi, after some research, I just found out that if you change the server root password for digitalocean, you have to go and renew your password using the online access console. Now I'm have been able to successfully install the certificate. But then I still get this 'Your connection is not secure' error the moment I access my web page. I use this website "https://www.sslshopper.com" to check for my ssl status. It's said that my certificate had expired, I thought laravel forge had implement the auto renew certificate?

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Hi, I had remove the old certificate and install the new one but the problem still persist. I contacted Forge support and they said "Looks like the certificate installed on this site is not the one that got renewed, can you please issue a new certificate and activate it?" . So i redo the step again and now it work.

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