How to manually enter certificate key into certbot?

[uaysk0327]

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My domain is:uaysk.com

I ran this command:certbot

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):apache2

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):ubuntu 20

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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 0.40.0

Can I enter the certificate key I received through the WordPress plugin directly through certbot?

[Osiris]

I think there are some elaborate options where you manually generate a CSR and use that with Certbot, but I would not recommend it.

You say you have root access to your host. Why would you undertake an elaborate process of manually feeding a private key to Certbot? Can't the plugin handle everything itself? Which plugin are we talking about anyway?

[orangepizza]

I guess some kind of key pinning?

[rg305]

You could manually replace the key certbot has and then reissue a cert without replacing the current key.