{"id":627,"date":"2023-02-08T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T04:20:40","slug":"how-can-i-renew-lets-encrypt-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"How can I renew Let&#8217;s Encrypt certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let\u2019s Encrypt uses the client&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eff-certbot.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/using.html\">Certbot<\/a>&nbsp;to install, manage, and automatically renew the certificates they provide. In the case where your certificate does not automatically renew on your Droplet, you can manually trigger the renewal at anytime by running:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo certbot renew<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have multiple certificates for different domains and you want to renew a specific certificate, use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>certbot certonly --force-renew -d example.com<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<code>--force-renew<\/code>&nbsp;flag tells Certbot to request a new certificate with the same domains as an existing certificate. The&nbsp;<code>-d<\/code>&nbsp;flag allows you renew certificates for multiple specific domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To verify that the certificate renewed, run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo certbot renew --dry-run<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Copy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the command returns no errors, the renewal was successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s Encrypt uses the client&nbsp;Certbot&nbsp;to install, manage, and automatically renew the certificates they provide. In the case where your certificate does not automatically renew on your Droplet, you can manually trigger the renewal at anytime by running: Copy If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/?p=627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-encrypted","category-my-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iabsolute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}