CERTBOT install - domain url no longer resolves, but ip addrees works (no cert)

[Osiris]

@TheBruce

I'd be happy to give you a recommendation

I'm not sure what that entails, but I'm pretty sure it's not necessary

[JimPas]

Not related to your problem, but for future reference regarding your question at the end of this post below:

@TheBruce

$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run

@TheBruce

Simulating renewal of an existing certificate for gogolf.online

Congratulations, all simulated renewals succeeded:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/gogolf.online/fullchain.pem (success)

BUT
I am not seeing a padlock on the url????

That's because that was a simulation - a test run. That's what you receive when using --dry-run - a "fake" certificate just to show your configuration is okay. The fake cert does get deleted so there's nothing for you to do regarding that. Dry-run is for testing your configuration to make sure everything is okay before you make the attempt the REAL certificate.

Glad to hear everything turned out getting your cert.

[TheBruce]

lol, Yes you are well qualified