# An issue while trying to renew the certificate
**URL:** https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [May 29, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177 "2023-05-29T17:07:07Z")
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### Author:  [@mos.reg](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mos.reg)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177/1 "2023-05-29T17:07:07Z")
Dear all
I used to renew the SSL certificate every 3 months by using this terminal command and follow the steps
# sudo certbot --server [https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory](https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory) -d [mydomain.com](http://mydomain.com) -d \*.mydomain.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns-01 certonly
Then I use this command to restart my webserver
# service nginx restart
But this time I failed, and I got this error message
I attached a screenshot
I'm using
- cPanel v86 on centos 6
- dnsmadeeasy
- Nginx
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### Author:  [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177/2 "2023-05-29T17:12:12Z")
A few things:
- Renewing a certificate is usually done by using the command `certbot renew`;
- Please upgrade your CentOS, CentOS 6 is not receiving any maintainance updates for more than 2 years already;
- Certbot has a DNS plugin for dnsmadeeasy ([User Guide — Certbot 2.6.0 documentation](https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#dns-plugins)), it would be better to use that plugin instead of using the `manual` plugin, which cannot be automated;
- certbot-auto is deprecated _and_ removed for some years now. Please don't use it any longer, but upgrade to a better method of installing Certbot;
- your DNS resolving capabilities are malfunctioning, resulting in the error shown.
Also, the domain `m.com` is a IANA reserved domain. I'm pretty sure your email address doesn't work; is it a fake one? If so, you should have used the `--register-unsafely-without-email` option if you didn't want to specify an email address.
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### Author:  [@mos.reg](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mos.reg)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177/3 "2023-05-29T17:14:45Z")
I can't do any updates on my server at these days
Is there a solution I can use to solve this issue
Thanks for reply
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### Author:  [@rg305](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/rg305)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177/4 "2023-05-29T21:43:38Z")
Have you read the previous post?
Did you understand all that was written?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/an-issue-while-trying-to-renew-the-certificate/199177/5 "2023-06-28T21:44:12Z")
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