I have two servers running Ubuntu 18.04 on which certbot was used to generate certs using the apache plugin. One has two sites, the other about 50. I now need to move those 50 to the other machine (and switch their DNS records accordingly). Most of the advice I can find assumes I have no existing c…

Hello @gilgongo , [image] gilgongo: Most of the advice I can find assumes I have no existing certs on the target machine. But I could perhaps perform some kind of manual weaving in of certs, accounts and renewal confs like this . But I don't actually understand the advice given. Basically you…

Hi @gilgongo [image] gilgongo: Can I instead just re-create the certs on the target machine from scratch once the DNS has switched over (so certbot --apache -d www.domain.com )? I don't mind a bit of down time. you can. But I wouldn't do that. If there are some problems with some domains, y…

OK good - I'll try the directory copy-over then. The target server is using certbot 0.27.0 while the one I'm migrating from is 0.31.0 but I assume that's OK. Oh BTW do I need to do anything on the old machine once the sites have moved? Should I delete sites from renewal?

Regarding version I think there should be no issues with the renewal files but don't know if there were significant changes between those 2 versions. Once moved yes, you should delete the certs in old server certbot delete

Does 0.27.0 support ACMEv2? According to the docs it should :slight_smile:

Yes, ACMEv2 support was available in certbot 0.22.0 :wink:

Copy /etc/letsencrypt or regenerate to move?

Help

sahsanu December 31, 2020, 10:15am 7

Yes, ACMEv2 support was available in certbot 0.22.0

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Copy /etc/letsencrypt or regenerate to move?

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