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My domain is: mail.basicallygaming.net
I ran this command: certbot renew, certbot certonly; mail.basicallygaming.net
It produced this output:
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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/mail.basicallygaming.net.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for mail.basicallygaming.net
2017/09/17 11:59:12 [notice] 1510#1510: signal process started
2017/09/17 11:59:12 [error] 1510#1510: invalid PID number "" in "/run/nginx.pid"
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
2017/09/17 11:59:17 [notice] 1530#1530: signal process started
2017/09/17 11:59:20 [notice] 1542#1542: signal process started
Then:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: mail.basicallygaming.net
My web server is (include version): nginx 1.13.4
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Arch Linux, 4.13.0-1-hardened
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: OVH VPS
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
Certbot kept outputting the log pasted above when I tried to renew my cert, but didn’t actually renew the certificate - then when I tried to remove the local files and fetch it from scratch it gave me that error and now I’m stuck without a cert (all certs for that address are currently revoked afaik).