i have used --staging
certonly --reinstall --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/certbot --email --staging democracy.straight.up@gmail.com --agree-tos --no-eff-email -d www.democracystraightup.org
/certbot/logs/lensencrypt.log
2022-11-14 20:25:32,794:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:certbot version: 1.28.0
2022-11-14 20:25:32,794:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Location of certbot entry point: /usr/local/bin/certbot
2022-11-14 20:25:32,794:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Arguments: ['--reinstall', '--webroot', '--webroot-path=/var/www/certbot', '-->
2022-11-14 20:25:32,794:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Discovered plugins: PluginsRegistry(PluginEntryPoint#manual,PluginEntryPoint#n>
2022-11-14 20:25:32,860:DEBUG:certbot._internal.log:Root logging level set at 30
2022-11-14 20:25:32,862:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Requested authenticator webroot and installer None
2022-11-14 20:25:32,865:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Single candidate plugin: * webroot
Description: Place files in webroot directory
Interfaces: Authenticator, Plugin
Entry point: webroot = certbot._internal.plugins.webroot:Authenticator
Initialized: <certbot._internal.plugins.webroot.Authenticator object at 0x7fe1c4bf7700>
Prep: True
2022-11-14 20:25:32,866:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Selected authenticator <certbot._internal.plugins.webroot.Authent>
2022-11-14 20:25:32,866:INFO:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
2022-11-14 20:25:32,890:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Picked account: <Account(RegistrationResource(body=Registration(key=None, cont>
2022-11-14 20:25:32,891:DEBUG:acme.client:Sending GET request to https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory.
2022-11-14 20:25:32,894:DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org:443
2022-11-14 20:25:33,041:DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org:443 "GET /directory HTTP/1.1" 200 659
2022-11-14 20:25:33,042:DEBUG:acme.client:Received response:
HTTP 200
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:25:33 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 659
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, no-cache
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=604800
{
"8us4lfPlZgE": "Adding random entries to the directory",
"keyChange": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/key-change",
"meta": {
"caaIdentities": [
"letsencrypt.org"
],
"termsOfService": "https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.3-September-21-2022.pdf",
"website": "https://letsencrypt.org"
},
"newAccount": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-acct",
"newNonce": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-nonce",
"newOrder": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-order",
"revokeCert": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/revoke-cert"
}
2022-11-14 20:25:33,072:DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): stg-r3.o.lencr.org:80
2022-11-14 20:25:33,153:DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://stg-r3.o.lencr.org:80 "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 543
2022-11-14 20:25:33,154:DEBUG:certbot.ocsp:OCSP response for certificate /etc/letsencrypt/archive/www.democracystraightup.org/cert1>
2022-11-14 20:25:33,154:DEBUG:certbot.ocsp:OCSP certificate status for /etc/letsencrypt/archive/www.democracystraightup.org/cert1.p>
2022-11-14 20:25:33,157:DEBUG:certbot._internal.display.obj:Notifying user: Certificate not yet due for renewal
2022-11-14 20:25:33,158:INFO:certbot._internal.main:Keeping the existing certificate
2022-11-14 20:25:33,158:DEBUG:certbot._internal.display.obj:Notifying user: Certificate not yet due for renewal; no action taken.
www.democracystraightup.org
Issued by: (STAGING) Artificial Apricot R3
Expires: Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 11:53:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
“(STAGING) Pretend Pear X1” certificate is not trusted