# Cannot renew single certificate after originally using multiple ceritifactes for subdomains etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [June 12, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926 "2017-06-12T07:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ehda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@ehda](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ehda)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/1 "2017-06-12T07:04:21Z")
Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. **My domain is** : [ehda.co](http://ehda.co) **I ran this command:** /usr/local/sbin/certbot-auto certonly --renew-by-default --manual -d [ehda.co](http://ehda.co) **It produced this output:** ```auto IMPORTANT NOTES: - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at /etc/letsencrypt/live/ehda.co-0001/fullchain.pem. Your cert will expire on 2017-09-10. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot-auto again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run "certbot-auto renew" - If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by: Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le ``` **My web server is (include version):** Apache/2.4.25 (Ubuntu) **The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):** Ubuntu 14.04 **My hosting provider, if applicable, is:** DO **I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):** YES **I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):** NO I used to autorenew all certificates which was [ehda.co](http://ehda.co) and [www.ehda.co](http://www.ehda.co) but in the last 3 months the www subdomain was moved to squarespace and uses their SSL cert. I have renewed [ehda.co](http://ehda.co) last week already, with the same command, which also produced success response, just like today (the response above) but I keep getting the emails that the cert is due for renewal, also on all SSL checkers the cert is still to expire on June 18th. What should I do? ---
**Author:** ![ehda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@ehda](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ehda)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/2 "2017-06-12T07:48:16Z")
So the command produced new certificates in directory `ehda.co-0001` while the old ones are still in `ehda.co`. I tried to mv the dirs so that the dir with the new ones is called `ehda.co` – no change in sslchecker. Also, the README there says I am not supposed to mv those files. **Please advise.** ---
**Author:** ![rg305](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/rg305/32/91314_2.png) [@rg305](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/rg305)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/3 "2017-06-12T08:59:50Z")
> [@ehda](#): > > certonly Your command request "certonly" which won't update the symbolic links nor will it update your configuration files. Try command without "certonly". /usr/local/sbin/certbot-auto --renew-by-default --manual -d [ehda.co](http://ehda.co) ---
**Author:** ![ehda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@ehda](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ehda)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/4 "2017-06-12T09:29:02Z")
I see, thanks a lot. Dropping certonly solved the issue. The peculiar redirect setup has a reason, public content is in subdirectory. ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/5 "2017-06-12T19:24:17Z")
> [@rg305](#): > > Your command request "certonly" which won't update the symbolic links nor will it update your configuration files. As a minor correction on this point, `certonly` _does_ update symbolic links, but does not update configuration files. It will also not attempt to reload a web server (e.g. `service apache2 graceful`). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-renew-single-certificate-after-originally-using-multiple-ceritifactes-for-subdomains-etc/35926/6 "2017-07-12T19:24:47Z")
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