Hey guys,
I’m just trying to figure out what are the remaining steps for a graceful transition between my old web host and my new droplet.
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
do.mydomain.com
So that’s the base setup. Now I began the migration but after struggling with certbot, I had no choice to stop for today ( Error creating new order :: too many failed authorizations recently:
). I’d like for everything to go well tomorrow then I try again.
I seem to be lost when it comes to make sure my droplet is ready for the main domain name (leaving do.mydomain.com
for just mydomain.com
).
I never used certbot before this droplet. Never setup a web server beforehand to be honest. Moving from a CPanel installation that will stay alive on the other host just because it’s cheaper than a licence and my emails are using CPanel forwarding features.
So what I done so far (all on the droplet):
home
and siteurl
in wp_options in the DB for mydomain.com
instead of do.mydomain.com
.www.mydomain.com
and mydomain.com
to my OLS admin panel (edited the ones already there for do.mydomain.com
and just added the two domain names above).mydomain.com
to point to my droplet IP’s address.certbot certonly
, specifying “Places files in webroot” (which is the same and only webroot as do.mydomain.com, /var/www/html/
). Specified the domain name mydomain.com a few times, kept failing, so I specified the domain names mydomain.com, do.mydomain.com
and it gave me the “Expand certificate” option, which I selected. Finally got the “Too many failed authorizations” error which is where I’m at now.For the time being I changed back my A Record for my main domain name back to my old web host since I’m having about 100 concurrent visitors all the time…
I really need the switch to be seamless and the certificate thing fixed. Any tips for tomorrow ? Anything I forget ? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hi,
You probably just hit the certbot rate limit due to frequent requests, please add
--dry-run
parameter when you are doing certbot test.Here’s an no interactive example when you want to expand the domain.
Once you see output like below, then you can run the certbot command again without
--dry-run
Remember to restart the web server to reload certificate.
If challenge failed again, please share the output here.
Hope it helps.