Let's Encrypt autorenewal not working

[robbrandt]

I have a Virtualmin server where letsencrypt is not auto updating.

I found this previous locked thread and checked everything over and it all looks OK.

Let's encrypt autorenewal not working?

Hi, I use VirtualMin with great pleasure. I like how easy I can install and maintain my SSL certificates now using let’s encrypt. However, I had set let’s encrypt to autorenew every 2 months on all my sites. Today I woke up to non-working sites. I checked the certificates and it said ‘Last renewal date: 3.03 months ago’. So, I requested the certificates again and everything is working now. How can I actually autorenew the certificates in the future? I would like to renew it every 2 months, b…

• Virtualmin 6.03
• “System Status” has 2 entries in the webmin scheduled functions, once at boot and then every 300 seconds.
• Webmin Actions list a few letsencrypt actions, but they seem to coincide with then I manually requested a cert.
• in the /virtual-server/ info file, the designated users with permission DO exist.
• In the virtual server’s Let’s Encrypt tab, it is set to renew every 2 months.

What else can I check? There must be someplace where System Status has a list of jobs to perform, where is that?

Thanks

[Ilia]

Hi,

At first install latest Webmin 1.942 and Virtualmin 6.09 GPL.

Afterwards, install certbot package and try re-requesting SSL certificate manually from Virtualmin/SSL Certificate page. In the future, it should automatically request certificates for you.

[Joe]

certbot is only an option on relatively new distributions. OP hasn’t told us what distro/version they have, so it may not be an option for them, but Webmin 1.942 has an updated acme_tiny client, so it can probably still work.