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…

No effect?? certbot revoke --cert-path /etc/letsencrypt/live/MyDomain/fullchain.pem produced “Congratulations! You have successfully revoked the certificate that was located at …”, but it is confuse, no “deletion”, all is there when I check again by certbot certificates. I need a real “delete”, …

@ppKrauss That’s correct. “certbot revoke” doesn’t delete anything. (And you don’t need to revoke a certificate before deleting it, unless the private key has been compromised, or you no longer control the domain(s).) “certbot delete --cert-name MyDomain” can be used to delete a certificate’s fil…

Thanks @mnordhoff , certbot delete --cert-name MyDomain worked fine! And important to remember that “… don’t need to revoke a certificate before deleting”. Well, let’s help to start a fast-guide .

One problem is that you also receive a reminder email when the certificate expires after you delete the certificate. How do I cancel the mail subscription for this certificate while deleting the certificate?

[image] logig: One problem is that you also receive a reminder email when the certificate expires after you delete the certificate. How do I cancel the mail subscription for this certificate while deleting the certificate? The email contains a link to PERMANENTLY unsubscribe YOUR ADDRESS from…

Note that certbot delete --cert-name MyDomain leaves Apache and also certbot --apache broken. That is, it does not remove/edit the Apache files after delete, leaving the apache conf files to refer to non-existing files, so restarting apache or re-running certbot --apache will give you an error. Some…

make a feature request that’s what that section is for :wink: it’s highly unlinkely that a feature requrest on the end of a chain will be picked up

Delete domains from a certificate Is like to redo “Create a certificate” task… So, do it by subtracting from the domain list, the domain that you whant to delete. Example: supposing as in Scenario-1 that you have a certificate xxxx.org with domains { xxxx.org , aaaaa.com , aaaaa.org }, and suppose th…

All those are great ideas and I am thankful that I found this discussion. I learned a lot! Altering Apache configs would certainly make it slicker, but altering them after certbot delete would be easy with sed. I just used an editor to make the changes since I was working in there anyway. Plus A…

Correct way to completely remove issued certificate(s) for a domain

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JREAM December 26, 2017, 12:31pm 30

a one liner!

sudo rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/{live,renewal,archive}/{${DOMAIN},${DOMAIN}.conf}

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Correct way to completely remove issued certificate(s) for a domain

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