Multiple certs were not combined into one: will they auto-update?

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@schoen

Unfortunately, I believe certificates obtained with "manual" can't be renewed by certbot renew at all. This might not be true with hooks, but I'll have to double-check.

According to @jmorahan, it is possible:

@jmorahan

I think the easiest way to move a site to a different server is to first request a new certificate on the new server using certbot's --manual plugin. This allows you to validate the domain by manually creating a file on the site, which you can do on the old server while the DNS is still pointing at it, even though certbot itself is running on the new server. Then you can test using your hosts file and make sure everything is working properly before you make any changes to the DNS. Once you have everything migrated and the DNS pointed at the new server, remember to get a new certificate with --webroot or another plugin (or directly modify the configuration) so that renewals will work correctly.

@jmorahan

the fact that you used --manual will be remembered and it will try to do the same thing again when the cron job runs - but this will fail because you won't be around at the terminal to read and follow the instructions. So you need to update the renewal configuration, and the simplest way to do that is to request a new certificate using the proper plugin