# Modify a certificate **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 16, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220 "2020-08-16T16:02:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arschulte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@arschulte](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/arschulte)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/1 "2020-08-16T16:02:53Z")
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. [https://crt.sh/?q=example.com](https://crt.sh/?q=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: [www.lanasacoaching.com](http://www.lanasacoaching.com) I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache -d [lanasacoaching.com](http://lanasacoaching.com) It produced this output: My web server is (include version): I am not sure - I am using wordpress so I think it is apache The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): ubuntu 16.04.3 My hosting provider, if applicable, is: digital ocean 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): 0.31.0 I am a relatively inexperienced Linux administrator and I am using Certbot for the first time. I mistakenly chose not to redirect all http to https when I created the certificate and now wish to do that. I have searched through all the topics here and either I’m not searching well enough or no one has been this dumb before. Is there a way to modify/replace the certificate to eliminate http and redirect everything to https? ---
**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/2 "2020-08-16T16:14:43Z")
> [@arschulte](#): > > Is there a way to modify/replace the certificate to eliminate http and redirect everything to https? That's not a certificate thing, but a feature of certbot. If you run the exact same certbot command as you've used before, certbot will recognise the previous issued certificate and will ask you if you'd like a new one issued (which isn't necessary) or if you'd like to reinstall the existing cert. Choose the latter. As far as I know, certbot _should_ ask you again if you'd like a redirect when installing the cert. Choose "yes" this time. By the way, you might check your Wordpress Admin first: it has a setting for the URL used. Perhaps also something about HTTPS. This URL setting in Wordpress should contain `https://`. This _might_ also be enough without using certbot for the redirect. It might also be that if you set the redirect with certbot _without_ having the proper HTTPS URL set in Wordpress, your site might become inoperable. So please also check your Wordpress admin. ---
**Author:** ![arschulte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@arschulte](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/arschulte)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/3 "2020-08-16T16:19:42Z")
Thank you for the super fast response. If I use [https://www.lanasacoaching.com](https://www.lanasacoaching.com) the website behaves correctly. And rerunning the command makes sense, I just am very new to Certbot and SSL so I wasn’t sure about the effect of doing that . Btw - should I have certificates for both [lanasacoaching.com](http://lanasacoaching.com) and [www.lanasacoaching.com](http://www.lanasacoaching.com)? And would that mean that I have to use the --expand option to add [www.lanasacoaching.com](http://www.lanasacoaching.com) to the original certificate? ---
**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/4 "2020-08-16T16:34:23Z")
> [@arschulte](#): > > Btw - should I have certificates for both [lanasacoaching.com](http://lanasacoaching.com) and [www.lanasacoaching.com](http://www.lanasacoaching.com)? It's probably the best way to include both hostnames in the same certificate. You can re-run certbot with two `-d` options, one for each hostname. Certbot should ask you if you'd like to expand the existing certificate. You want that, so choose Yes. > [@arschulte](#): > > And would that mean that I have to use the --expand option to add [www.lanasacoaching.com](http://www.lanasacoaching.com) to the original certificate? `--expand` is also a good option so certbot knows what to do, yes. That way it doesn't have to ask you. But even with `--expand`, you should add _both_ hostnames on the command line, not just the hostname you'd like to add. ---
**Author:** ![arschulte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@arschulte](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/arschulte)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/5 "2020-08-16T16:36:50Z")
This is really helpful, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/modify-a-certificate/131220/6 "2020-09-15T16:36:51Z")
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