Can't renew cert cause of rateLimited

Hi @teneco,

Ok, lets see if we can fix it.

Login as root and execute below commands:

First, backup… just in case :wink:

cd
tar zcvf backup_etc_letsencrypt-2017-Oct-10.tar.gz /etc/letsencrypt/

Now, we will reorganize your certs.

rm -f /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/*
mv /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de-0001/* /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/
rm -rf  /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de-0001/
cd /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.cloud-vngl.de/
rm *.pem
ln -s ../../archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/cert1.pem cert.pem
ln -s ../../archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/chain1.pem chain.pem
ln -s ../../archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/fullchain1.pem fullchain.pem
ln -s ../../archive/mail.cloud-vngl.de/privkey1.pem privkey.pem

And now try to renew the cert:

certbot renew

If the cert has been renewed, reload Apache:

service apache2 reload

I hope this helps.

Edit: Added rm *.pem to command list to avoid errors when issuing ln commands.

Cheers,
sahsanu