I’m building a NAS that will be accessible from the internet. I didn’t pay close enough attention or I’d have noticed that I could do a dry run. Instead, I installed a certificate in the normal manner. It works fine, but I know I’m going to wipe this system and start clean now that I have all the pi…

Hi @cjohnsonsr1 , Welcome to the community forum! Please see this document for information about Let’s Encrypt rate limits. On your new setup I’d recommend first attempting issuance against the staging environment .

[image] Phil: Please see this document for information about Let’s Encrypt rate limits. On your new setup I’d recommend first attempting issuance against the staging environment I appreciate that @Phil , but as I said in my post, I already did a live setup. It's too late to do a dry run. I ha…

[image] cjohnsonsr1: What I’d really like is to be able to get rid of the existing certificate and just generate a new one when I’m ready with the newly rebuilt system. In that case, simply rebuild your system and the old cert will eventually expire. If you really wanted to you could revoke i…

Thank you so much @Phil . When I got to the part of my project where I needed a certificate I was dreading having to try to learn it all. I had just enough exposure to SSL to know that I needed it and that there was a good reason why some people get paid to handle it. I found Let’s Encrypt by acciden…

I’m glad it was easy for you! :slight_smile: Best of luck out there.

I’m almost ashamed that I asked the question in the 1st place. Literally took less than 10 minutes to figure it out once I finally started to RTFM. :blush: sudo certbot revoke --cert-name cuttinej.com Revoked and deleted the certificate for cuttinej.com and www.cuttinej.com in one smooth move. Thi…

I realize now that I should have done a dry run

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In that case, simply rebuild your system and the old cert will eventually expire. If you really wanted to you could revoke it, but that's unnecessary.

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I realize now that I should have done a dry run

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