Help After Deleting a Certificate I get SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

[rodericks]

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My domain is: ineedamaid.com

I ran this command:
certbot delete

It produced this output:
Success

My web server is (include version):
nginx/1.14.1

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
ubunutu 16.4

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
digitalocean

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):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): 0.28.0-1+ubuntu16.04.1+certbot+4

[JuergenAuer]

Hi @rodericks

@rodericks

My domain is: ineedamaid.com

I ran this command:
certbot delete

why do you delete a certificate? The error message

SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

says: Your port 443 is a http port, not a https port. Same result - a check, ~~45 minutes old - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=ineedamaid.com - Grade Q.

So you have two options:

• Remove the port 443 complete, create a new certificate and let Certbot create a new vHost
• add an expired or a self signed certificate to your port 443 vHost, so that vHost has a wrong certificate, but answers.

[rodericks]

Thank you I’ll look into that. For now I just ran certbot --rollback, and that seems to have gotten the website back up. I’ll try your solution this weekend.