Question
Newbie: Site not working after unsuccessful attempt at deleting SSL certificate
- Posted July 20, 2021
- Nginx
Hello. I have an old version of Ubuntu (its a long story, I cant update right now for the next few months since its running an old version of a website which my developers are reworking with latest version of php etc).
My previous developer had assigned an SSL certificate. Then left. Which expired. I couldn’t update it for various reasons. Now I tried to delete it. being a newbie I think I didn’t do it well.
Now my site isn’t working. Browser says cant connect to server. Nginx doesn’t seem to be running.
I get the : “BIO_new_file(”/etc/letsencrypt/live/websitename.com/fullchain.pem") failed (SSL" Error.
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) Failed with result ‘exit-code’
(not necessarily in that order. I typed the above errors because I couldn’t copy paste from the console :(
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Hi @paramvir00,
It seems your previous developer installed an Let’s Encrypt SSL. You should be able to renew it using certbot. I’ll recommend checking one of the following articles:
or
Additionally, here is anothre good tutorial which ou should be able to use in your case:
All of the above tutorials will help you renew and reinstall your certificate and add it to Nginx. Once you do, you shouldn’t have any issues with your website.