I am using lets encrypt on a server with my domain name https://eccoders.com/ and i want to shut this server down and get certs for the same domain on another server

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: https://eccoders.com/

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

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

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):

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

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@huntw000
The simplest way to get a cert is via HTTP-01 authentication [there are other ways].
For HTTP authentication to work, global DNS needs to resolve the name to an IP and HTTP needs to respond at to the challenge question (at that IP).

So, if you want to get a cert (forget about any previously issued certs and) then follow the steps you would normally take to get one.

  • obtain a global domain name :heavy_check_mark:
  • add global DNS entry to public IP :heavy_check_mark:
  • router NAT/PAT and firewall allowing inbound HTTP :heavy_check_mark:
  • web service at destination IP :heavy_check_mark:
  • use an ACME client :heavy_check_mark:
  • obtain a cert :heavy_check_mark:
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can i just shut server down and create a new server and install new cert for same domain?

Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is:https://eccoders.com/

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):apache

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

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):

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

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Copy your valid certs from the running server (possibly do one last renewal first) and copy them to the new server. This will buy you some time to setup, for example, Certbot, or CertSage, or acme.sh etc on the new machine. Just follow what you did setting LE up on the existing server. Can't offer any more info without more details.

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yes that is what i want to do just forget about previous cert and apply for new cert with the same domain name as i did originally - my first server is not booting so copying cert is not an option

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