I was trying to renew one of my customer’s letsencrypt cert tonight. I setup this auto renew script at the very beginning and it always work. And I actually quite surprised that the cert is going to expired in 20 days. Because I thought the auto renew script supposed to run everyday.
And I jumped on the host and started troubleshooting. I found the script and ran for a couple of times. it appeared that the challenge was not even show up.
After the investigation, I realised that it’s the lego issue. I have to update the lego version by doing the following:
cd /tmp curl -Ls https://api.github.com/repos/xenolf/lego/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep linux_amd64 | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -i - tar xf lego_vX.Y.Z_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo mv lego /usr/local/bin/lego
Dont forgot to change the version to the right version. After I update lego version, everything back to work.
