SSL cert renewal or deletion concerns

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My domain is: thepegasus.app

I ran this command:

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email=YOUREMAIL --domains=“YOURDOMAIN” --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt" renew --days 90
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start

It produced this output:

2020/08/14 15:21:25 No key found for account sam@pegasus.app. Generating a P384 key.
2020/08/14 15:21:25 Saved key to /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/accounts/acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/sam@pegasus.app/keys/sam@pegasus.app.key
2020/08/14 15:21:25 Account sam@pegasus.app is not registered. Use ‘run’ to register a new account.

Hosting Details: Bitnami WordPress on Google Cloud instance.

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): I am using GCP SSH tool.

My Question:

Self-trained web developer - sys admin skills limited.
My SSL cert - expired yesterday - I need to renew it.
Action - ran the code above - but don’t know the email address related with the certificate.
Result - renewal wont work - ‘see response code’
Question 1 - how can I identify the email addresss I associated with my ssl? Is there a website, linux command or ftp path I can use to find it?
Question 2 - If I cant find it, can I just delete my SSL certs and regenerate new ones? Where is the resource on how to do that safely?
Question 3 - If I do delete and regen - is there any risk with causing system failure of any kind?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @sambaynes

if you have only some domains, accounts aren’t relevant.

Create a new account with a new mail address.

That’s not a Letsencrypt error, that’s an error of your local script you use.

And never delete certificates that are in use. Create a new account, then a new certificate, install it, then you can delete the old certificate.

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Thanks for the timely response.

When you say a new account, what do you mean?

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