Too many certificates already issued

[Osiris]

@ametad

If I understand correctly one can give multiple domain names as argument to the CLI client of Letsencrypt like so:

./letsencrypt-auto -d domain.com -d sub.domain.com

Is this how SAN certificates are created? If that is the case I am still wondering why I get the same error:

There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: Too many certificates already issued for:

Yes, you're correct: by using multiple -d switches, you'll get one certificate with multiple domains. I believe the first -d switch will be the CommonName (CN) domain. And all domains are added to the SAN list. But even so, if you've hit the rate limit, that limit doesn't suddenly vanish

Perhaps you can experiment first by using the --server https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/directory option. That way you can try the client and receive certificates (which won't work online, 'cause they'll be signed by some "Happy hacker" CA in stead of Let's Encrypt Intermediate X1) and the staging server doesn't have such strict rate limits.