Unable to renew expired certificate on plesk onyx

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My domain is: fincorp.com.pg

I ran this command: Nil

It produced this output: Nil

My web server is (include version): Apache

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18.84

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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):
plesk oynx

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

My host provider enable the option of install Let’s Encrypt Certficate via my Plesk Oynx Dashboard. My LE Certficate expired on Sunday. I tried renewing the Certificate by going to Website & Domain > fincorp.com.pg > Let’s Encrypt > renew

But when I checked https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=fincorp.com.pg, it appears that the certificate is not renewed.

Hi @gdorke

you have already created 5 identical certificates ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=fincorp.com.pg#ct-logs ):

Issuer not before not after Domain names LE-Duplicate next LE
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 fincorp.com.pg, www.fincorp.com.pg - 2 entries duplicate nr. 5 next Letsencrypt certificate: 2019-09-02 21:28:06
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 fincorp.com.pg, www.fincorp.com.pg - 2 entries duplicate nr. 4
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 fincorp.com.pg, www.fincorp.com.pg - 2 entries duplicate nr. 3
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 brianbellcredit.fincorp.com.pg - 1 entries duplicate nr. 5 next Letsencrypt certificate: 2019-09-02 21:29:04
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 brianbellcredit.fincorp.com.pg - 1 entries duplicate nr. 4
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 fincorp.com.pg, www.fincorp.com.pg - 2 entries duplicate nr. 2
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 brianbellcredit.fincorp.com.pg - 1 entries duplicate nr. 3
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 brianbellcredit.fincorp.com.pg - 1 entries duplicate nr. 2
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 brianbellcredit.fincorp.com.pg - 1 entries duplicate nr. 1
Let's Encrypt Authority X3 2019-08-26 2019-11-24 fincorp.com.pg, www.fincorp.com.pg - 2 entries duplicate nr. 1

That has hitted the limit - 5 identical certificates per week.

So check your Plesk installation to see, why you don't use it.

Perhaps a server restart is required.

I see that now…an error message popped up informing me about that. I read about on this forum and see that I would require a server restart, however, I am not able to do becuase of restrictions set by my service provider.

I would have to get in contact with my service provider to restart the server and remove the duplicate certifcates?

Correction, the server is an nginx server not apache server.

Only a restart of the webserver is required, not a hard boot.

Should be done via plesk.

And never remove active certificates - wait, if they expired.

The certificate expired on Sunday. In my country we had a public holiday on Monday (yesterday) so I was not able to check the status of the SSL Certificate.

But noted and will try to be a bit more careful.

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