So I had generated some certificates with standalone plugin, Which renewing the certificate can I just use webroot plugin? Should there be any changes to Nginx configurations after the cert is renewed with webroot plugin? ~ Nik

@Nik , This might be useful [image] How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Let's Encrypt to obtain a free SSL certificate and use it with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04. We will also show you how to automatically renew you…

Thank you for the link @RijulB , but unfortunatel that does not answer my question. I have already set up certificates using the --standalone flag which is working great but the problem is I have to stop nginx server every time I have to renew the certificates, because the --standalone option requir…

@Nik , my intuition is that if you say letsencrypt -a webroot -d example.org -d www.example.org with exactly the same list of domains as are in your existing cert, the client should be able to renew using your existing cert and the different authenticator. You would also, I expect, need to specify yo…

Thank you @schoen , Just Renewed my certs with webroot instead of standalone. Running the same sites with webroot plugin for the same sites worked. ~ Nik

Hi @Nik , I’m glad it worked for you! Hopefully eventually we’ll have a more convenient way to make this sort of change.

Does a more convenient way exist now?

It might be slightly more convenient to use --cert-name in more recent Certbot releases instead of specifying all of the -d values, if you know the lineage name for the certificate you want to modify (you should be able to find it with certbot certificates if you don’t). I haven’t heard of anyone us…

@schoen , how can we do this using the certbot commands? I’ve installed a couple of sites using the --standalone method as well as 1 that I had to install using the --manual method because the site hadn’t launched yet and was hosted on a different server. Trying to get these setup using --webroot so…

I think it will work if you just specify the new method with certonly like certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/example.com -d example.com -d www.example.com as long as your list of domains in -d includes each and every domain in the existing cert. If the cert isn’t near expiry, you would also a…

Awesome, thanks, I got them all to work!!

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