# Cancel auto renewal of certificates **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 27, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318 "2018-09-27T08:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nirbenya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@nirbenya](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/nirbenya)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/1 "2018-09-27T08:53:37Z")
I have auto renewal for my certificates, for some reasons I want to cancel the auto renewal. How can I do that? I want to cancel for all active domains with certificates. this is how I issued my certificates: sudo certbot-auto --apache Apache Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS SSH connection to the ubuntu machine ---
**Author:** ![JuergenAuer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/juergenauer/32/26491_2.png) [@JuergenAuer](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/JuergenAuer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/2 "2018-09-27T09:46:15Z")
Hi @nirbenya > [@nirbenya](#): > > for some reasons I want to cancel the auto renewal. there should be a cron-, at or systemd - job you should stop. Check `/etc/crontab/`, `/etc/cron.*/*` and systemd timers ( `systemctl list-timers` ). In `/etc/letsencrypt/renewal` there are certificate specific configuration options. You "can" add wrong commands / options to block a renew. But this is not really a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![nirbenya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@nirbenya](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/nirbenya)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/3 "2018-09-27T11:49:56Z")
HI @JuergenAuer, Thanks. I’ll take a look at the cron files. What about deleting the `/etc/letsencrypt/renewal` folder? ---
**Author:** ![jmorahan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/jmorahan/32/1873_2.png) [@jmorahan](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/jmorahan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/4 "2018-09-27T12:28:22Z")
If you want to prevent all future auto-renewal of certificates on this server, you should disable the cron job or systemd timer. If you want to disable auto-renewal for the certificates you currently have, but still be able to auto-renew any new certificates that you may obtain in the future, you should instead delete the files inside the `/etc/letsencrypt/renewal` folder (back them up first in case you change your mind). ---
**Author:** ![mnordhoff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/mnordhoff/32/22583_2.png) [@mnordhoff](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mnordhoff)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/5 "2018-09-27T12:53:07Z")
With recent versions of Certbot, you can just set “`autorenew = False`” in the renewal configuration files. (Or something like that. I might have it wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cancel-auto-renewal-of-certificates/73318/6 "2018-10-27T12:53:10Z")
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