Newly generated certificate is expired

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My domain is: foozstats.cacheblasters.com

I ran this command:
python acme-tiny/acme_tiny.py --account-key ./account.key --csr domain.csr --acme-dir /var/www/challenges/ > ./signed.crt

wget -O - https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-x3-cross-signed.pem.txt > intermediate.pem

cat signed.crt intermediate.pem > …/FoozServer/certs/chained.pem

It produced this output:
signed.crt

My web server is (include version):
Node.JS 6.12.0

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Debian (Jessie)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
N/A
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.

I had previously successfully gotten certificates issued using acme-tiny (https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny) however when I attempt to renew a cert it issues the same old expired cert.

I have ever tried generated a new account key and following the steps outlined in the github from scratch, I still am getting the old certificate issued (expired 1/20/18, as can be seen here: https://foozstats.cacheblasters.com/message)

What steps am I missing to get it to issue a new cert instead of the same old expired one?

Hi @OtherwiseJunk,

You have successfully generated five new (non-expired) certificates today:

https://crt.sh/?q=foozstats.cacheblasters.com

If you continue repeating this process, you’ll encounter an issuance rate limit.

Can you post a copy of the most recent signed.crt file?

Thanks for the heads up on that, I wasn’t aware of that site which helps a ton already!

here’s the signed.crt:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

The certificate that you’ve just posted was issued today and expires on May 1. So something about your process of importing it into your web server seems to be the problem, not the certificate issuance itself.

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Ok cool. I’ll take a look at that then, thanks!

If you need a tool to monitor your SSL certificate’s expiry date, then I find SSL Checker quite useful.

Hey @OtherwiseJunk, I recently launched https://padlockspy.com for monitoring of SSLs, including expiry reminders, check it out if you’re interested. Let me know what you think :slight_smile:

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