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My certificates are been generated just fine. However the service (openvpnas) is not running with the renewed certificates. It still uses an expired certificate.
My domain is: posrip.com
I ran this command:
certbot certificates
It produced this output:
Certificate Name: posrip.com-0001
Domains: posrip.com
Expiry Date: 2020-05-25 17:17:20+00:00 (VALID: 89 days)
Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com-0001/fullchain.pem
Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com-0001/privkey.pem
Certificate Name: posrip.com
Domains: posrip.com
Expiry Date: 2020-05-25 17:17:20+00:00 (VALID: 89 days)
Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com-0001/fullchain.pem
Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com-0001/privkey.pem
My web server is (include version): 2.7.5
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
ubuntu 16.04
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 0.31.0
Have you reloaded OpenVPNAS? Do you use the files in /etc/letsencrypt/ directly from the OpenVPNAS configuration? Or did you copy the cert/privkey to another location and use it from there?
That is probably because I had regenerated the certs while the previous ones stayed in place and i assume certbot just appended the numbers to differentiate them. They are two different certs issued by certbot in my desperation to get it working but both are still valid certs, so why is openvpnas not picking either up. Still seems to be serving from some unknown location the previously expired certs
I can only presume that openvpnas was configured to use: Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com/fullchain.pem Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/posrip.com/privkey.pem
[without the -0001, and that cert still exists and is NOT being renewed]
Got in touch with openvpn and they advised using the guide linked below. Following the steps in the first part of the guide fixed my problem. NB ‘–value_file’ points to local files.
True and according to the support tech, openvpn does not support certbot. I have deployed certbot via chef previously, so I know that it is indeed possible but I was stumped here and this fixed the issue for me. I have since created a cron for certbot to renew the certs on schedule
Well, I'm not entirely sure if that's correct. According to the how-to, it just uses another client to get certificates. Also, it seems to be using the utility sacli to import the certificate files into the OpenVPNAS configuration!. So I think OpenVPNAS doesn't actually use files on the disk directly. In any case, it won't use the files in the Let's Encrypt directory like you previously claimed in post #3. It will only use the files in /usr/local/openvpn_as/etc/web-ssl/ as a fallback.
As people here probably aren't precisely familiar with less-known services as OpenVPNAS, I would recommend for you in the future when you run into problems, either be 100 % familiair with the software you're using or say you don't know how OpenVPNAS is configured, as now you've given us information which steered me in the wrong way of thinking.