Hi there,
I received an email last month, and then again this month, to tell me that my certificate expires for a specific domain on a certain date (actually a few days from now). However, when I check my actual server and do some checks via SSH, it says that my certificate for that domain still has much longer before expiring.
Which is correct? Why would I get emails telling me different than my server?
Thanks,
Andrew
Hi @AArkwell
it would be helpful if you would share your domain name.
The mail is created if you have a certificate with a set of domain names which isn't renewed.
So: If you first create a certificate A with www.example.com, later create a certificate B with www.example.com + example.com + blog.example.com and you use this certificate B:
So you don't renew certificate A, because you don't use it.
Then you get a mail that A expires. 20 days before and 10 days before.
So ignore the mail.
Ah gotcha, hmm.
The domain in question is https://freedomlending.ca/
The email says the domain actually expires today: “Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 10 days (on 18 Sep 18 20:27 +0000)…freedomlending.ca”
But then when I check my server with “sudo certbot certificates” I get: “Found the following certs:
Certificate Name: freedomlending.ca
Domains: freedomlending.ca www.freedomlending.ca
Expiry Date: 2018-12-02 23:33:52+00:00 (VALID: 75 days)”
So, I’m not really sure!
There is a certificate with two names:
DNS-Name: freedomlending.ca
DNS-Name: www.freedomlending.ca
valid 2018-12-02.
But today
ends a certificate with one name freedomlending.ca:
So you don't need and use this one-name-certificate, so you can ignore the mail.
OK thank you! I will use that site in the future to check.
Andrew
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