Hi, I understand that I can revoke a certificate or I can wait for its expiration. But it does not remove related files from /etc/letsencrypt. What if I have an issued certificate(s) for a domain and I know that I don’t need it anymore - what is the correct way to completely remove it? I would lik…

This worked for me, many thanks… made a backup first though JIC, sudo cp /etc/letsencrypt/ /etc/letsencrypt.backup -r I deleted the ‘no longer needed domains’ in the three folders… rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/live/${DOMAIN} rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/${DOMAIN}.conf rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/archi…

Type “certbot delete” and choose the certificate to delete from the list. It removes files from live, archive and renewal directories. Should this issue be closed now that there is a command to do it?

“certbot delete” is a good starting point, but it doesn’t remove the created apache vhost and settings. So executing “service apache2 restart” will trigger a “AH00526: Syntax error”

It would be great also if we could just do certbot delete {$DOMAIN} – having to select from a numbered list and then input the number is a little clunky.

@JohnCC , you should already be able to do that with the --cert-name option. To find out the relevant cert name, you can run certbot certificates.

hi, thanks for the thread…I was wondering the same thing with a few certs that died off for me. just to note, since I use certbot-auto on 1 of my servers, you can run this command using: sudo ./certbot-auto delete question I have now is - can I rename the .conf name is /archive, /live, & /renewa…

[image] andrewjs18: question I have now is - can I rename the .conf name is /archive, /live, & /renewal? @erica , is there a way to reach rename_lineage in the cert manager from the CLI?

Rename has not yet launched, because we stalled on the complexity of renaming certs within the configuration files. Currently I would recommend deleting and recreating the certs with a new name.

thanks for the reply. it’s not that big of a deal to me…my new cert is just named something like mysite-0001.conf…I can wait until rename is available.

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Thank you, sorry I missed that. That helps a lot!

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