I followed the DigitalOcean tutorial on installing Let’s Encrypt available here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04 but now I would like to completely remove it from my server as I am having issues with form submissions over SSL.
How can I completely remove Let’s Encrypt?
Thank you.
Hi, you can disable like this:
a2dissite 000-default-le-ssl.conf
and
service apache2 reload
Hope it helps.
You would need to modify your apache configuration files to remove your https entry and any reference to your certificate files. Letsencrypt is installed under /opt/letsencrypt when following our tutorials so you can also remove that directory to delete the letsencrypt tools.
I’ve successfully removed all Let’s Encrypt files but now my site does not load. It still has the https in it. I cleared my browser cache but apparently is not that.
Did you already opened your apache config file e.g yoursite.conf and removed the rewrite rule? then delete the symlink in site-enabled for your-site-ssl-____conf?
@angelovillasant. You’ll normally find the rewrite rule section inside you configuration file e.g mysite.conf. A line like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.mysite.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mysite.org
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
Remove this line from this file. And also remove the file called mysite-le-ssl.conf then it should be okay.
sudo certbot delete
Then type the index number of the domain name’s certificate you wanna delete and press enter
sudo certbot delete –cert-name example.com