[Solved] Unable to renew domain certificate under Windows 2008r2

[stolmax]

Hello,

I need some help in understanding how to renew site certificate on windows. When I run:

letsencrypt.exe --renew

I see that my certificate will expire on 2/28/2018. Nevertheless, when I am trying to access a resource on my site, the browser reports that my certificate already expired on 1/28/2018.

Can someone please help? Thanks

Max

[rg305]

Do you have two certs?
Try using MMC to locate them and delete the expired.
And then use IIS to bind the good one.

[stolmax]

Hi Rudy,

Thanks for response. I checked and you were right. The one that I have listed under MMC console in a certificate store has expired. Unfortunately, I don’t see the new one. Is there a way I can recreate it? Thanks

Max

[rg305]

There isn’t much need to recreate a cert.
You could easier just create a new one.

While using MMC, be sure to check both user and computer certs.
you can try right click top of tree branch and “find cert”…

[stolmax]

Can you please tell me how to recreate a certificate in MMC?

Thanks,

Max

[stolmax]

I tried using letsencrypt to generate new certificate in command prompt, but error:

I just copied this URL from command prompt into the browser and was able to load the content of the file successfully. Can you help me understand what am I doing wrong and what prevents this type of navigation and verification? Thanks

Max

[rg305]

I did not mean to suggest that you could obtain a cert from the MMC.

[rg305]

Try placing a “test.txt” file within the acme-challenge folder.
Then you can verify accessibility from the Internet via the full URL.

[stolmax]

Thanks. I used your suggestion and saw that there was an issue with routing which originated in my Firewall. Fixed that and everything is working now. Thank you.