[Solved] Automatically restarting nginx upon cert renewal

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Hi folks,

My crontab is set up, so that letsencrypt renew gets executed bi-daily, and does its job.

The only thing not automated is reloading nginx. I could simply add yet another crontab entry for it but I rather wouldn’t. Every server restart is a potential opportunity for things to go wrong, so I’d like to reload nginx only when at least one cert gets renewed.

Waiting for your ultimate wisdom.

Laci

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--post-hook "service nginx restart" is probably what you’re looking for.

  --post-hook POST_HOOK
                        Command to be run in a shell after attempting to
                        obtain/renew certificates. Can be used to deploy
                        renewed certificates, or to restart any servers that
                        were stopped by --pre-hook. This is only run if an
                        attempt was made to obtain/renew a certificate.
                        (default: None)
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Thank you so much! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ll use

--post-hook "service nginx reload"

since reload is safer than restart.

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So finally what does your full crontab line look like? Are you able to share. Thank you.

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