Moodle - wont renew ssl cert by itself

[domidetres]

Keywords: Moodle - Microsoft Azure - Technical issue - Secure Connections (SSL/HTTPS)
bnsupport ID: 66197d3a-c1f3-b412-33f1-5860e42deea8
Description:
Hey,

we are hosting a bitnami certified moodle template in azure.
We tried to configure the bncert tool, that worked fine - but is not autmatically renewing the cert.
We tried that how-to:
https://docs.bitnami.com/azure/how-to/generate-install-lets-encrypt-ssl/

so what are we doing right now?:
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email=“it@customer.at” --domains=“domain.customer.at” --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt" renew --days 90
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start

with that the ssl cert is reconfigured for additional 90 days.
But we are not able to get a cron job running for that.

what are we doing wrong?

Many thanks,
domidetres

[gongomgra]

Hi @domidetres,

Thanks for using Bitnami. I see in your bnsupport tool that you already have a job configured to renew the certificates. Can you tell us what is the content of the script?

0 0 1 * * /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/scripts/renew-certificate.sh 2> /dev/null

Can you edit the job to save the output to a log file and check what error do you get?

0 0 1 * * /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/scripts/renew-certificate.sh 2> /tmp/certificate-renewal.log

Running the script manually can also give you some hints at this moment

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/scripts/renew-certificate.sh

[domidetres]

Hey @gongomgra,

Content of the script:

#!/bin/bash

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop apache
sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email="it@customer.at" --domains="domain.at" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt" renew --days 90
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start apache

We editet the cron-job and added the log part.

0 0 30 * * /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/scripts/renew-certificate.sh 2> /tmp/certificate-renewal.log

When we manually run the script without sudo, the certificate renew worked well.

We will contact you again if the isse reappears.

Many Thanks,

[gongomgra]

Hi @domidetres,

Thanks for letting us know. Let us know if it worked or not once the cron job is triggered.

Regards,
Gonzalo