Forge: LetsEncrypt cert failed to renew
Hello,
Today a TLS LetsEncrypt certificate expired on a load balancer I've got, which basically broke my site. I am trying to figure out why it didn't automatically renew. In the ~year I've had it running this is the first time it didn't renew the certificate. I also never received an email from Forge stating that it failed to renew a certificate (docs say this should happen: https://forge.laravel.com/docs/1.0/sites/ssl.html#renewing-letsencrypt-certificates).
At this stage I've fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling a new cert (using the Forge UI).
From my understanding so far, cron will run the following:
/etc/cron.d/letsencrypt-renew-<some num>, which contains:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
56 21 * * 1 root /bin/bash /home/forge/.letsencrypt-renew/<id>> /home/forge/.letsencrypt-renew/<id>.out 2>&1
Within /home/forge/.letsencrypt-renew, there's the output file <id>.out that contains the following:
Certificate will not expire
Certificate is still valid.
This is the certificate that expired.
I can see that usually when a certificate is renewed, the output file would contain something like:
Creating challenge directory...
Installing LetsEncrypt client...
Configuring client...
Restarting Nginx...
Generating Certificate...
# INFO: Using main config file /root/letsencrypt<num>/config
+ Generating account key...
+ Registering account key with ACME server...
+ Fetching account URL...
+ Done!
# INFO: Using main config file /root/letsencrypt<num>/config
+ Creating chain cache directory /root/letsencrypt<num>/chains
Processing api.<domain>.com
+ Creating new directory /root/letsencrypt<num>/certs/1616..........
+ Signing domains...
+ Generating private key...
+ Generating signing request...
+ Requesting new certificate order from CA...
+ Received 1 authorizations URLs from the CA
+ Handling authorization for <api.domain.com>
+ 1 pending challenge(s)
+ Deploying challenge tokens...
+ Responding to challenge for <api.domain.com> authorization...
+ Challenge is valid!
+ Cleaning challenge tokens...
+ Requesting certificate...
+ Checking certificate...
+ Done!
+ Creating fullchain.pem...
+ Done!
Success!
1Installing Certificate...
Restarting Nginx...
So at this point I'm pretty unsure of why the certificate didn't automatically renew. Are there any other log files I can check, or can I test the current configuration to ensure that automatic renewal will work in the future?
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