# Renewal message for a renewed cert **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [June 22, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655 "2017-06-22T17:59:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mbiork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mbiork](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mbiork)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/1 "2017-06-22T17:59:10Z")
Hi, I’ve received this email reminder that sound inacurrate: Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 9 days (on 02 Jul 17 16:28 +0000). Please make sure to renew your certificate before then, or visitors to your website will encounter errors. [img.verylys.com](http://img.verylys.com) if I open up the cert from a web browser it tell me the cert is good until september Our cert is multi domain, and we do not receive any error from the other domain that are using the same cert. My domain is: [img.verylys.com](http://img.verylys.com) I ran this command: ./certbot-auto renew It produced this output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log * * * ## Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/img.verylys.com.conf Cert not yet due for renewal The following certs are not due for renewal yet: /etc/letsencrypt/live/img.verylys.com/fullchain.pem (skipped) No renewals were attempted. My web server is (include version): Nginx 1.6.2-5+deb8u4 The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 8.1 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 Thank you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/2 "2017-06-22T18:50:05Z")
Hi @mbiork, Please read further down in the renewal message to see the explanation of the conditions under which the renewal message is sent. This is also explained at > [@Received "Let's Encrypt Expiry Bot" email even though I have renewed my certificate](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/received-lets-encrypt-expiry-bot-email-even-though-i-have-renewed-my-certificate/36632/2): > > H… ---
**Author:** ![npandey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@npandey](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/npandey)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/3 "2017-06-22T23:32:20Z")
## Hi there I received a renewal message and we had renewed the cert a few months ago - I am confused about getting this again? Thanks Hello, Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 9 days (on 01 Jul 17 22:41 +0000). Please make sure to renew your certificate before then, or visitors to your website will encounter errors. > **[My Site](https://www.joinpicketfence.com/index.php)** > > Meet other older adults in your neighborhood!  Go for a morning walk, meet for lunch at a new favorite spot , or  grab an afternoon cup of coffee. For any questions or support, please visit [https://community.letsencrypt.org/](https://community.letsencrypt.org/). Unfortunately, we can’t provide support by email. ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/4 "2017-06-22T23:37:35Z")
Hi @npandey, While you might be used to certificates from other CAs with longer validity periods, all Let’s Encrypt certificates expire after 90 days. Your current certificate does, indeed, expire at the beginning of July, having been issued at the beginning of April. We strongly encourage creators of tools that people use with Let’s Encrypt to support automated renewal so that the inconvenience of renewal will be minimized. Maybe you can check if whatever method you’re using to get a certificate could be automated so that you won’t have to take action in this situation as frequently. ---
**Author:** ![npandey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@npandey](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/npandey)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/5 "2017-06-22T23:39:43Z")
Hi @schoen oh no - my engineer is out of the country and I don’t know how to do the renewal. Is it possible to get an extension otherwise the site will go down right ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/6 "2017-06-22T23:52:01Z")
All Let’s Encrypt certificates are issued automatically by a computer, and there’s no such thing technically as extending one, only issuing a new one. (The expiration date is built into each certificate, so when a certificate is going to expire, it should simply be replaced by the new updated certificate.) The new certificate needs to be installed on your own server in order to be effective; there’s nothing that could be done from the Let’s Encrypt site that would substitute for that process. If you can tell us more about your hosting environment, we might be able to help you figure out how to renew your certificate or whether there is someone else who might be able to help you do it. ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/7 "2017-06-22T23:52:54Z")
It’s true that visitors to your site will start to encounter browser errors if your certificate isn’t replaced with a new, updated certificate by July 1. ---
**Author:** ![mbiork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mbiork](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mbiork)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/8 "2017-06-23T10:15:18Z")
It didn’t make sense to me, but I got it, thanks for your help with this matter Seth, I’ll just disguard that email reminder 😉 Have a very nice day. ---
**Author:** ![npandey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@npandey](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/npandey)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/9 "2017-06-24T04:28:17Z")
Hosted on Amazon. How can I get help ? I would so appreciate it ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/10 "2017-06-24T05:29:23Z")
Do you know if you can log in to your AWS server as root over ssh? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-message-for-a-renewed-cert/36655/11 "2017-07-24T05:29:54Z")
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