I issued a LetsEncrypt cert for the domain webwellprofits.com on IIS. Later on, I needed a wildcard cert and LetsEncrypt didn’t support them yet, so I had to purchase one. Now I can’t get LetsEncrypt to quit trying to renew the old cert. I can’t find where to remove it from the scheduled task that…

Found that I can remove the site in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\letsencrypt-win-simple\ https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/ . Also found that if I update to the latest LetsEncrypt, canceling a renewal is now an option. Sweet!

There should probably be a scheduled task for that: start run taskschd.msc

There is a scheduled task. It needs to keep running to renew the other certificates on the server. I don’t know how to remove just this one from the task list. I don’t see it in the task.

What is/are the action(s) of the task?

The action is Start a Program. The parameters are: --renew --baseuri “ https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/ ”

[image] psherwood: The action is Start a Program. The parameters are: --renew --baseuri “ https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/” What program is it starting? Ultimately, you're going to need to check the documentation for the client you're using about how to remove a certificate from its list…

I needed the cert before LetsEncrypt supported them. This was last year sometime that I purchased it.

The program the task is starting is: C:\Letsencrypt\letsencrypt.exe

There may be a configuration fil in the C:\Letsencrypt folder that may explain this behavior.

There’s an XML file in the folder but it just has some LetsEncrypt settings. Nothing about the certificates.

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JuergenAuer October 11, 2018, 4:19pm 6

Hi @psherwood

Letsencrypt supports wildcard certificates if you have a client that supports the v2.

So this isn't a reason to buy a certificate.

Perhaps you should use another client.

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