# SSL Certificate Expired

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 21, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110 "2019-12-21T22:19:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![pkkhadka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@pkkhadka](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/pkkhadka)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/1 "2019-12-21T22:19:44Z")

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. [https://crt.sh/?q=example.com](https://crt.sh/?q=example.com)), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: [https://www.margaretlifegate.com](https://www.margaretlifegate.com)

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Amazon Web Service

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): no

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of `certbot --version` or `certbot-auto --version` if you’re using Certbot):

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**Author:** ![stevenzhu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/stevenzhu/32/18864_2.png) [@stevenzhu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/stevenzhu)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/2 "2019-12-21T23:53:21Z")

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Hi,

Do you control the machine your website hosted on?  
Or you are using a shared hosting provider? Managed hosting?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![pkkhadka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@pkkhadka](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/pkkhadka)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/3 "2019-12-22T00:48:12Z")

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No I don’t have any control. One of my friend but he is in overseas and no contact at all.

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**Author:** ![ski192man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@ski192man](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ski192man)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/4 "2019-12-22T01:22:06Z")

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If you don’t have any control over the server there isn’t anything you can do. Only your friend can correct this

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**Author:** ![pkkhadka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@pkkhadka](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/pkkhadka)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/5 "2019-12-22T04:01:43Z")

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I just need to renew the ssl.

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**Author:** ![mnordhoff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/mnordhoff/32/22583_2.png) [@mnordhoff](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mnordhoff)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/6 "2019-12-22T04:44:26Z")

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Which requires some amount of access to the server.

We don’t know how it’s set up, but that probably requires logging into a control panel (if there is one), or logging in to SSH and running commands as root.

It’s recommended to fully automate Let’s Encrypt certificate renewal, but if it’s not automated, or if the automation fails, **someone** has to log into the server and take care of it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate-expired/109110/7 "2020-01-21T04:57:10Z")

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