When I do a dry run of a renewal, it appears to skip the HTTP-01 challenge, but I specifically want it to run the challenge because I'm trying to test a pre-hook script I wrote. The certificate was renewed recently without any problems, and the HTTP-01 challenge worked correctly, so it's not due fo…

How can I force a challenge during a renew dry run?

mnordhoff August 8, 2019, 9:42pm 14

Someone should confirm this, but I’m not sure --dry-run ever executes pre-hooks, even if you need to validate again.

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