Hi, I have a generated a Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate which is going to expire in 90 days. Is there a way to expire it explicitly within 1 month or 15 days for testing a python script which will renew the SSL Certificate if it is expired. Please guide. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Kaushal

Hi Kaushal :slightly_smiling_face: You can't force a certificate to expire. You can simply renew a certificate early, delete the old certificate's private key, and let the old certificate expire naturally. You don't want to wait until a certificate expires to renew it, so your script test will simp…

In short: NO. You can't request a cert with any other expiration than 90 days from issuance - no more, no less.

I'm not sure how your script is designed, but one thing you could try is to revoke your cert and re-issue it.

Hi @arpmeister and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile: Please don't recommend wasting LE resources by revoking a cert for no other reason that one being done with using it.

Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Certificate Revocation: An Animated Clarification Issuance Tech O…

Thanks rg305! I didn't understand your request. it was something like don't recommend cert revocation for any reason except something or other.

Thanks for the articulate rational for not revoking a cert. see, my advice was to a guy who is trying to test a script that renews a cert. if the script only works if the cert is expired, then revoked may work to get to a possibly useful state to finish the script. but then again it may not, I …

A revoked certificate is not necessarily an expired certificate. :slightly_smiling_face: Why on earth would anyone ever write a script that only renews a certificate once it has already expired? By that point it's far too late. Given that the only criteria that applies is the comparison of the curre…

[image] arpmeister: I didn't understand your request. My request is simple: Don't recommend revoking certificates; That WASTES resources. If anything, recommend that they use their own CA and not LE for anything of the sort.

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