No Idea how to renew my SSL certificate and it's becoming urgent

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I can’t get in touch with my IT guy and I need to renew the SSL certificate on this domain ASAP. Does the security certificate get renewed on WP or the server?

My domain is: paragem.com.au

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

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for bandaid fix:


call IT guy later as it would run out 3 mouth later.

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thank you. Is it easy to install? do i need a plugin as the site is running WP? i have absolutely no IT skills!!!

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you don’t install cert to WP, you install cert to webserver that runs the WP.

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Therefore i need access to server?

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yes you are, or a shard hosting system like Cpanel

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Perfect - thank you so much for your help!

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Hi @flyingblind

now you have a new certificate, created today:

CN=paragem.com.au
	24.06.2019
	22.09.2019
expires in 90 days	
paragem.com.au, www.paragem.com.au - 2 entries

But your CT-log list shows an interruption ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=paragem.com.au#ct-logs ):

CRT-Id Issuer not before not after Domain names LE-Duplicate next LE
1609266673 CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US 2019-06-24 04:29:24 2019-09-22 04:29:24 paragem.com.au, www.paragem.com.au
2 entries duplicate nr. 1
1609230395 CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US 2019-06-24 04:14:36 2019-09-22 04:14:36 paragem.com.au
1 entries duplicate nr. 1
1308530497 CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US 2019-03-21 08:39:56 2019-06-19 07:39:56 paragem.com.au, www.paragem.com.au
2 entries
1327486093 CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US 2019-03-21 08:27:16 2019-06-19 07:27:16 paragem.com.au
1 entries

The last certificate expired 2019-06-19, 5 days downtime.

How did you create that certificate?

Typical situation: A certificate should be renewed after 60 - 85 days (automatic). So you don't have such a downtime.

And you have two certificates, one only with one domain name. You don't need that certificate. Looks like there is a certbot or something else that has created two different certificates.

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He was used old cert when I post few hours ago, and it seens he did call his IT guy to renew the cert I guess.

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Yep. But then the renew didn’t work, so it’s not really a solution. And the wrong certificate (with only one domain name) could be removed. So both certificates are renewed.

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thanks all. solution now sorted as we’re going to buy an SSL rather than relying on 3 month free certificates

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