SSL Certificate Renew Fails

hackernewbie 2019-02-18 15:51:26 UTC #10

sudo lego --tls --email="my-email-id" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew
$ ls /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/
accounts certificates lego scripts
$ cd certificates
-bash: cd: certificates: No such file or directory

I don't see anything inside my certificates directory, strangely!

michiel 2019-02-19 10:36:22 UTC #11

According to the bnsupport information the certificates are in that folder. Can you tell me the output of the following commands:

ls -lah /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/

And

ls -lah /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/

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hackernewbie 2019-02-23 08:03:37 UTC #12

First Command's Response

total 40K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 12 13:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Feb 12 11:27 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.issuer.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 242 Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.issuer.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 246 Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.key

Second command's Response:

total 328K
drwxr-xr-x 5 bitnami root 4.0K Feb 12 13:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Dec 21 17:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 bitnami root 4.0K Feb 12 13:41 bitnami
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 289 Dec 21 17:45 deflate.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 bitnami root 4.0K Dec 21 17:41 extra
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 20K Dec 21 17:48 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 13K Dec 8 11:38 magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 60K Dec 8 11:38 mime.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 7.3K Aug 2 2012 modsecurity.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.crt -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/northeastexplorers.in.crt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Feb 12 11:27 northeastexplorers.in.key -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/northeastexplorers.in.key
drwxr-xr-x 3 bitnami root 4.0K Dec 21 17:41 original
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 18K Dec 21 17:45 pagespeed.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 138K Dec 21 17:41 pagespeed_libraries.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 199 Dec 21 17:42 php-fpm-apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 1.8K Feb 12 07:21 privkey.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Feb 12 07:21 server.crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Feb 12 07:21 server.csr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 12 07:21 server.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 203 Dec 21 17:44 ssi.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.crt -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/www.northeastexplorers.in.crt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Feb 12 13:41 www.northeastexplorers.in.key -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/www.northeastexplorers.in.key

michiel 2019-02-25 10:40:36 UTC #13

Could you execute the following command:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email="my_email" --domains="my_domain" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

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hackernewbie 2019-02-27 15:47:51 UTC #14

Surprisingly, I get the following as response to the command given below:

Response:

You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m

Command Executed

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email="myemail@mydomain.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

jsalmeron 2019-02-28 11:52:12 UTC #15

Hi,

This is weird, could you try using -m instead of --email ?

Best regards,

Javier J. Salmerón

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khaled 2019-02-28 13:19:59 UTC #16

Hello every one,

I Have same issue. I got same response
"You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m"

and I try -m I receive same response

Best Regards
Khaled

michiel 2019-03-01 10:48:35 UTC #17

Hi @khaled,

Could you paste command you are using and the output?

khaled 2019-03-01 20:39:23 UTC #18

Hi Michiel, Thank you for your quick response

I use Bitnami WordPress with NGINX and SSL 4.9.8-2

Command Executed

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email=qe.sa*****@gmail.com" --domains="www.qe*****.com" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start

Response:

2019/03/01 19:46:31 You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m

Command Executed

ls -lah /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/

Response:

total 40K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 29 04:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Feb 27 17:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Mar 1 00:00 qe***.com.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7K Mar 1 00:00 qe***.com.issuer.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 231 Mar 1 00:00 qe***.com.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Mar 1 00:00 qe***.com.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5K Feb 27 20:51 www_qe***com*crt
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 27 20:51 www_qe***.com.issuer.crt
-rw------- 1 root root 235 Feb 27 20:51 www_qe***.com.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Feb 27 20:51 www_qe***.com.key

Command Executed

s -lah /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/

Response:

total 108K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 29 04:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Nov 12 17:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 29 05:23 bitnami
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Nov 10 22:33 fastcgi.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Nov 10 22:33 fastcgi.conf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Nov 12 17:59 fastcgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1007 Nov 10 22:33 fastcgi_params.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K Nov 10 22:33 koi-utf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K Nov 10 22:33 koi-win
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1K Nov 10 22:33 mime.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.1K Nov 10 22:33 mime.types.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Nov 12 17:59 nginx.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6K Nov 10 22:33 nginx.conf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Nov 23 14:10 privkey.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Nov 29 04:59 qe***.com.crt -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/qe***.com.crt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Nov 29 04:59 qe***.com.key -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/qe***.com.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.7K Nov 10 21:44 sample_domain_host.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636 Nov 10 22:33 scgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636 Nov 10 22:33 scgi_params.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Nov 23 14:10 server.crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Nov 23 14:10 server.csr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Nov 23 14:10 server.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 664 Nov 10 22:33 uwsgi_params
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 664 Nov 10 22:33 uwsgi_params.default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 12 17:59 vhosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Nov 10 22:33 win-utf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Nov 29 04:56 www_qe***.com.crt -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/www_qe***.com.crt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Nov 29 04:56 www_qe***.com.key -> /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/certificates/www.qe***.com.key

Best Regards
Khaled

khaled 2019-03-01 23:28:15 UTC #19

After that the website isn't working

HTTP ERROR 500

khaled 2019-03-03 00:08:11 UTC #20

I just increase the memory limit and every things is working also the ssl was renew.

Best Regards
khaled

hackernewbie 2019-03-05 08:57:57 UTC #21

Doing this returns the following:

You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m

michiel 2019-03-05 11:00:30 UTC #22

Hi @hackernewbie,

Could you send a screenshot after running the command? Also, could you run the following command and tell me the output?

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --version

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hackernewbie 2019-03-05 16:34:05 UTC #23

Hi Michiel,

The output of the following command:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --m="me@mydomain.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

is:

2019/03/05 16:30:03 You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m

The following command:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --version

gives the result given below:

lego version 1.2.1

However, if I run

lego help

it says I am running version 2.2.0 of Lego. The output is as follows:

NAME:
lego - Let's Encrypt client written in Go

USAGE:
lego [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
2.2.0

michiel 2019-03-06 11:23:35 UTC #24

You are using --m, could you try running the command with --email:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email="me@mydomain.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

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hackernewbie 2019-03-07 18:30:37 UTC #25

Hi Michiel,

If you see our conversation above, you will see that is exactly what I had done above. I have also shared the response above.

Sharing the command and the response here again:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --tls --email="rajiv@myemail.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

Response

2019/03/07 18:29:40 You have to pass an account (email address) to the program using --email or -m

Can you help me sort this out sooner please, as the certificate will need renewal soon.

jota 2019-03-08 14:38:19 UTC #26

Hi @hackernewbie,

It seems that you have 2 different lego files in your machine. The first one is at /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego and it includes the version 1.2.1 and the other one is in the system's paths and its version is 2.2.0. The --tls option is not available in the version 1.2.1 so you can either run the lego binary inside /opt/bitnami without using the --tls option or use the system's lego to regenerate the certificate.

Option 1:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/lego --email="rajiv@myemail.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

Option 2:

sudo lego --tls --email="rajiv@myemail.me" --domains="www.northeastexplorers.in" --path="/opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/" renew

Let us know if you have any questions

hackernewbie 2019-03-13 06:09:11 UTC #27

Thanks Jota,

I tried the first suggestion and it worked smoothly.

I however, don't know why do I have 2 versions of lego on my system.

Is it ok to have both the versions or should I have just one?

Thanks again!

michiel 2019-03-13 10:08:29 UTC #28

Hi @hackernewbie,

I'm glad to hear it works now. Keeping both versions doesn't matter, but you can safely remove the old one.

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hackernewbie 2019-03-13 10:37:10 UTC #29

Thank you for your inputs.

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