# Wanna Try Letscrypt on my Server

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wanna-try-letscrypt-on-my-server/11405>\
**Category:** Server\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wanna-try-letscrypt-on-my-server/11405 "2016-02-23T14:33:16Z")\
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I don’t use the official client, so hopefully someone else can give you a detailed answer. I can just see several thing wrong with your cron there though.

looking at [this thread on renewal](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/help-us-test-renewal-with-letsencrypt-renew/10562) you should be able to just do a “letsencrypt renew” if you have the latest version of the official letsencrypt client.

Looking at what you have passed you have used the argument “–renew-by-default” which will renew irrespective of how long the current certificate has left. You need to remove that parameter from your command.

The third variable of the cron ( \*60 in your case ) - is the day of the month. Since there are less than 31 days in a month, the value you have there is invalid. Hence it’s running at midnight every day and getting a new cert.

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