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Let's encrypt Renew License
mjflint
Member
I originally set up a Let's ecnrypt certificate by referencing the following tutorial:
https://community.time4vps.com/discussion/83/directadmin-lets-encrypt-certificates-installation-in-your-directadmin-control-panel#latest
This worked really well and I was able to have a working DirectAdmin panel with Let's encrypt SSL. Today my original 90 day certificate has expired.
I planned on executing the following commands on my Centos 6 VPS with DirectAdmin 1.5.1.4:
cd
/usr/local/directadmin/scripts
./letsencrypt.sh
request vps.mydomain.com 4096
After executing the listed commands above with SSH I receive the following:
[root@vps scripts]# ./letsencrypt.sh request vps.mydomain.com 4096
Setting up certificate for a hostname: vps.mydomain.com
Getting challenge for vps.mydomain.com from acme-server...
Waiting for domain verification...
Challenge is valid.
Getting challenge for www.vps.mydomain.com from acme-server...
Error: http://www.vps.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/letsencrypt_1498052888 is not reachable. Aborting the script.
dig output for www.vps.mydomain.com:
Please make sure /.well-known alias is setup in WWW server.
It seems that I have to make sure that the alias is setup in WWW server. I searched for information and followed the support guide on DirectAdmin's support forum:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=646
I was able to successfully execute the acme challenge test and view the 'text' message in my web browser Chrome.
I would like to know if anyone is experiencing similar problems while working within the Centos 6 and Direct Admin environment. I also have noticed that this 'alias error' is currently affecting the automatic license update of DirectAdmin. Now I have to manually update it before it expires a the end of the scheduled thirty day period.
I thank all of you for time and assistance.
Best regards,
mjflint
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Comments
After searching out more information and receiving ideas from other administrators I was guided to the importance of checking the following file on my server:
/usr/local/directadmin/conf/ca.san_config
I was told that there were bad url references and this was causing the error. Therefore, I deleted all bad url reference and left my hostname domain vps.mydomain.com as the only reference. After executing the script above to renew the license everything worked flawlessly and I now have a secure SSL environment within DirectAdmin. I hope this information serves for anyone else that might run into this situation.
Best regards,
mjflint