How can I stop virtualmin from trying to create the default host letsencrypt cert?

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OS type and version Debian Linux 13
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I had to setup up a new server a couple of times and run into the problem of ‘too many certificate requests for exactly the same instance’ at letsentcrypt.

Letsencrypt gives me a time penalty of 168 h, but virtualmin tries by itself to get the certificate about every hour. Where can I tell virtualmin to be a little more patient?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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We shouldn’t be trying over and over hourly after a failure. That’s got to be a bug.

@Ilia, any idea where we’d be requesting a LE validation for something that has already failed? We shouldn’t keep trying so much we get the user temporarily banned.

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I’ve been looking into this for the past few hours, and I thought I knew exactly how to fix it, but I’m afraid it will take some more time to do it truly right. I will update this ticket with progress.

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All right, I removed blind duplicate retries:

I also improved retry logic and throttling:

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wonderful.

Thank you Ilia.