Renewing letsencrypt certificates on AWS Lightsail

Question

Hi  
  
Look in for help to renew ssl certificates provided by letsencrypt.  
  
I installed the certificate using these instructions  
https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en/articles/amazon-lightsail-using-lets-encrypt-certificates-with-wordpress  
  
There is nothing in there about renewing apart from the screenshot once the certificate is installed.  
  
I have tried running certbot renew and get this error  
  
Attempting to renew cert (xxxxx.co.uk) from /etc/l  
etsencrypt/renewal/xxxxx.co.uk.conf produced an un  
expected error: The manual plugin is not working; there may   
be problems with your existing configuration.  
The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be  
 provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plug  
in non-interactively.',). Skipping.  
All renewal attempts failed.   
  
Looking to be pointed in the right direction.   
  
Reading the standard Bitnami install and renewal docs   
  
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/generate-install-lets-encrypt-ssl/  
  
it talks about using lego to handle the renewal but enabling lego this was not part of the initial install instructions.  
  
Thanks

Answer

The answer's in the error message. Essentially, you can't run certbot non-interactively to renew your certificates if you've installed them interactively using the --manual parameter. To renew them, you'll have to run the original command again and go through the steps to verify domain ownership (certbot can't configure your DNS).

Answer

Thanks for the answer, I was able to update the certificates.  It there away to automate this ?

Answer

Hi There,  
You can set up a cron job for the same.  
https://serverfault.com/questions/790772/cron-job-for-lets-encrypt-renewal  
  
Hope this helps.

Renewing letsencrypt certificates on AWS Lightsail

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