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[image] MikeMcQ: sudo certbot certonly --dry-run --cert-name www.studentobservation.com --webroot -w /home/clients/studentobservation.com/htdocs -d www.studentobservation.com -d studentobservation.com I got the command! Thanks! sudo certbot certonly --cert-name www.studentobservation.com --…

Yes this server is production server. We have several server using certbot. There are 8 projects using certbot on this server, but only 2 were up for renewal. And they both had the same error.

Sorry, I meant trying to get a production Let's Encrypt cert as opposed to one from the Let's Encrypt Staging system (which looks to have worked). [image] Do you have more than one account in the system? sudo ls -lR /etc/letsencrypt/accounts

How to do a production certbot? I thought I was doing that. It seems I do have more than account ... see screenshot. I see staging.api in that output. [Screenshot from 2023-10-13 15-46-20]

A production Let's Encrypt cert is the default. They are used in live servers and the certs will be trusted. You must specifically request Staging certs and these are NOT trusted by browsers. They are helpful when testing to avoid the production system rate limits. You got 2 Staging certs earlie…

I see there 4 accounts. If I remove 3 of those arbitarily, would that work? I do not know how or why that got that way.

If you were going to remove any do the two from 2016. Those are the older generator account numbers. Still, I'd review my previous post about comparing the account numbers and making backups [image]

[image] hal1: No it didn't No it did not what?

I removed 3 of the 4 accounts, to test it. Same error though.

Actually it looks like a different error: Failed to renew certificate www.studentobservation.com with error: You should register before running non-interactively, or provide --agree-tos and --email <email_address> flags.

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hal1 October 13, 2023, 8:20pm 9

No it didn't

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