This might seem like an odd issue but I’ve checked in the past and saw that my SSL certificate was set to auto renew on 3/30/2021. I got an email from a client saying their site was showing a not secure error. I sshed into the droplet and I can see the SSL cert was automatically renewed. I actually had to reboot my droplet in order for it to recognize the new SSL cert. Is this normal? Anything I can do to prevent having to reboot the droplet next time my SSL renews?
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Hi @dgrimesbusiness,
Hmm, that’s weird. What you can try next time is to restart your WebService (Apache/Nginx). Basically, when you make a change like this or editting anything in the configuration, you’ll need to restart/reload your WebService (if it’s a change there of course) so that change actually is applied.
To do so, you can do
Ubuntu/Nginx
systemctl restart nginx
Ubuntu/Apahce
systemctl restart apache2
CentOS/Nginx
systemctl restart nginx
CentOS/Apahce
systemctl restart httpd
Regards, KFSys
Hi @dgrimesbusiness,
I see you have experienced the same issue, I’m sad to hear that!
Anyway, I tried some other stuff to see if I can help you out. It seems the following service should be restarted when a new certificate has been installed:
service lsws restart
Maybe you can try and add it to be executed when the system certbot.service executes the certificate renewal.
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