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CERT RENEWED, BROWSER STILL SCREAMS NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID. HUH?? lol

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Accepted solution by Zane — hmmm with Certbot, run sudo certbot renew dry run to see whether renewal would work right now. Check teh timer with systemctl list timers…
  1. Tess Rossi
    @trossi_15

    long time lurker first post lol well, this is embarrassing. our staging server is serving a certificate error and i only found out when i tried to log in myself.

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NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

    NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID. Im using the hosts free SSL toggle. I tried running a renewal manually and it either says nothing needs renewing or fails with a challenge error I dont understand lol Which one is lying, teh browser or teh tool? Id really like to know which part of teh chain failed so I can monitor it.

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  2. Rafa Lund
    @rafa.lund60

    wait did anything change with DNS, firewall rules or redirects recently? ?

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  3. Juno S.
    @juno_night-1y0

    long time lurker first post lol told my boss it would take 10 minuets. its been 3 hours any ideas??

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  5. Kira A.
    @kira_shader
    in reply to @trossi_15

    oof renewal can succeed while the browser still sees the old cert, because the web server loaded teh certificate at startup and never reloaded. Add a deploy hook: certbot renew --deploy-hook "systemctl reload nginx" (or apache2). conatiners need the same: reload or restart teh proxy after renewal. good luck man!

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  6. Zane
    @packetlab
    Accepted solution

    hmmm with Certbot, run sudo certbot renew --dry-run to see whether renewal would work right now. Check teh timer with systemctl list-timers | grep certbot 👍 common failures: port 80 blocked by a firewall, a redirect rule that breaks /.well-known/acme-challenge/, or DNS now pointing somewhere else.

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  7. Tess Rossi
    @trossi_15
    in reply to @packetlab

    @packetlab reopened port 80 just for teh ACME challenge path and renewal worked... added expiry monitoring too, lesson learned. cant believe it was that simple lol

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