FAILED - Renew & replace the certificate (may be subject to CA rate limits)

My domain is:
anetizer.com www.anetizer.com

I ran this command:
certbot -apache

It produced this output:
Requesting a certificate for anetizer.com and www.anetizer.com
An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates (5) already issued for this exact set of domains in the last 168 hours: anetizer.com,www.anetizer.com: see Rate Limits - Let's Encrypt

My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.48 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2022-01-05T14:29:15

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.10
Release: 21.10
Codename: impish

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Contabo VPS 50Gb NVMe
IP: 178.18.246.168
IPv6: 2a02:c206:2057:5521::1
Location: Dusseldorf
OS: Ubuntu 21.04 (64 Bit)

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 1.22.0

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Background:
I have had the anetizer.com domain for about twenty years and have successfully had it running on about five different VPS.

I also had well over a dozen FreeNom.com free domains mostly used for sandbox sites but unfortunately FreeNom has recently started to block some of the domains without any warnings. The blocked domains can only be reinstated by paying a premium - a couple of USD above the price of their .com domains. In order to alleviate having to pay hundreds of USD for the sandbox domains I decided to create additional subdomains on anetizer.com (I have had bill.anetizer.com for quite sometime).

I managed to successfully create about six additional standalone subdomains. More subdomains created crosslinks. I read on this forum the subdomains could all be grouped under the anetizer.com domain...

During the subdomain creation process I have lost anetizer.com, all subdomains and now locked out for about a week because of too many failed attempts.

Questions:

  1. If the attempt failed to register a domain what is the correct procedure to prevent being blocked for a week?
  2. I assumed that "Renew & Replace" would ignore previous setting and start afresh.
  3. Previously when domains were changed to a different server I left the old certificates, etc on the old server and just created new domains, This has worked until now...
  4. After the one week wait what is the correct procedure to reinstall anetizer.com
  5. How can I remove the crosslink domain?

Additional information: - apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

What shows?:
certbot certificates

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A1. The attempt didn't fail - it worked 5 times [that's the limit]
A2. That was a bad assumption; It replaced a perfectly good cert with a new one [five times]
A3. Is there a question in there?
A4. Don't wait a week - if you can use any of the recently issued certs.
A5. Please explain crosslink and what you are trying to accomplish.

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certbot certificates

Very strange indeed.

Please show file:
/var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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  1. It "worked" but did not render the correct domain instead rendered GekkoBooks.com
  2. The "perfect;y good cert" rendered the incorrect domain, GekkoBooks.com
  3. "This has worked until now..." but not working now. What can do to correct the crosslink?
  4. How can I use another "recently issued certs"?
  5. anetizer.com renders gekkobooks.com. Cross link refers to the following validation test:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=anetizer.com&hideResults=on

There is no HTTPS site that covers the name anetizer.com
The site shown is the default:

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Very strange indeed.

Please show file:
/var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

True because all attempts failed to create a https:anetizer.com certificate and now I am locked out.

Show this file:

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file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/anetizer.com.conf

cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/anetizer.com.conf

Try adding this to that file:

  <Location /.well-known/acme-challenge/>
   DocumentRoot /some/unique/path
  </Location>

OR
These, if it complains about that one:

  <Location /.well-known/acme-challenge/>
   #nothing special
  </Location>

Modify/remove the .htaccess file in the folder: /var/www/anetizer.com/public_html
Which seems to be returning unrelated stuff for any/all challenge requests:

curl -Ii http://anetizer.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:27:58 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.48 (Ubuntu)
Cache-control: no-store, max-age=0, no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

This is what is returned:

Summary
curl http://anetizer.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234
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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-GB">
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          <h1 class="tac"> .well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234 </h1>

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        Request: /.well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234      </legend>

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      <h3 class="tal"> Some Zen computer error messages which may apply to your recent mis-fortune </h3>
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          <li> The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist. </li>

          <li> Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. </li>

          <li> Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. </li>

          <li> Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams!!! </li>

          <li> Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. </li>

          <li> Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. </li>

          <li> Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. </li>

          <li> A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. </li>

          <li> Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred? </li>

          <li> You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. </li>

          <li> Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will. </li>

          <li> Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped. </li>

          <li> Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. </li>

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Many thanks for the prompt reply.

I made the suggested modifications:

  1. anetizer.conf modifications
  2. removed .htaccess file
  3. created a simple index.html file
  4. created a simple index.php file
  5. updated server with 24.9Mb of modifications
  6. rebooted server
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Is everything working now (as expected)?

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Still no change.

The Cert for “anetizer.com” cannot be renewed yet because it is still within the seven day locked out period. The http version is rendering as expected.

I added “domaincheck.tk” and the SSL Certificate is cross linking to “gekkobooks.com”. This domain is a utility which checks files with http, https, www prefixes without having to repeatedly clear the browser cache.

Should I delete/revoke the “gekkobooks.com” and try adding a new certificate?

[off-topic]
How to post a CSS Summary Detail to hide information until required by selecting the down chevron as shown in your Post #13. A search of the Forum documents was unsuccessful.
[/off-topic]

You could generate a new cert with all the names on it.

NO.
That can only make matters worse.
Learn how to use the cert(s) that you have.

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I used certbot —Apache to recreate “domaincheck.tk” and the rendered domain is incorrect. Using this feature has previously worked for quite a few domains.

Would reinstalling the Ubuntu operating system and the domains solve all problems? (I have another DigitalOcean Server for a paying client. This is where the problematic domains were originally hosted. This Contabo server has double the capacity and uses a NVMe drive and claims to be about ten times faster than SSD Drives).

I’m not sure how the Certificates are stored externally and would like to delete/revoke the external Certificates rather than wait for existing Certificates to expire.

That does not shorten the wait time. If it did there would essentially be no rate limit as people could do that and re-issue indefinitely.

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True :frowning:

i will reread the manual and try manual solutions.

Hopefully alternatives are found because certbot —apache is failing on the existing operating system.

I never got round to re-installing the operating system, instead I used a Snap backup which cleared the errors?

All the single subdomain certificates are working same as before trying to delete and combine the subdomains?

I will try later to install more subdomains and take special note of the logs and other sites showing certificate information.