Hello Everyone,
I’m using Letsencrypt for the first time. Love it - what a great idea.
Letsencrypt was used by a former employee to install certificates for
domain.com
www.domain.com
staging.domain.com
www.staging.domain.com
The former employee set up a schedulled task to renew the certificates, it started to fail a while back, once the certificates were due to renew. Initially it was a problem with acme challenges.
I discovered that it was an Angular 2 site and added a rule so the acme challenges would work for the domains above.
Now when I run the following in a command prompt
letsencrypt.exe --renew --baseuri “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/” --verbose
The acme challenges are successful for each of the 4 combinations listed above, except it appears when a wildcard is encountered and then it just bombs out without giving any further info.
In the image below there is an AlternativeNames section and there is a * in it. This appears to lead to a failure in the certificates being renewed
This could be my lack of experience with Letsencrypt & domains so apologies if I’ve made an error. But why would their be a * in the alternative names? Why might this have worked for the former employee? Any ideas very much appreciated.
Thanks
John