Lets Encrypt SSL no renewals were attempted

Hi all,

As this turned out to be a long discussion, I will summarize it so that it is easier for anyone else who comes across this to find the solution:

• The problem affected the Ghose droplets created from the DigitalOcean Marketplace

• The problem was an outdated acme.sh script. The error that we were getting was:

Could not get nonce, let's try again.

• To fix the issue we had to update the script from the dev branch of the acme repo:

sudo /etc/letsencrypt/acme.sh  --upgrade -b dev

• After that, we noticed that the updated script was stored at:

/root/.acme.sh/acme.sh

• To renew the SSL certificate we had to run:

/root/.acme.sh/acme.sh --force --renew --home /etc/letsencrypt --domain yourdomain.com --webroot /var/www/ghost/system/nginx-root --reloadcmd "nginx -s reload" --accountemail yourmail@yourdomain.com

• We also had to adjust the cronjob so that the certificate could be renewed automatically, so we had to change the path from /etc/letsencrypt/acme.sh to /root/.acme.sh/acme.sh, to do that just run:

crontab -e

Find the acme.sh cronjob and change the path accordingly.

Hope that this helps anyone who comes across the same issue! Regards, Bobby