Nextcloud an Let's Encrypt issues

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Hello forum,
I need some help. I’m running Nextcloud on a dietpi with lighttpd and Let’s Encrypt with a dyndns adress.
I changed the lighttpd.conf from /var/www to /var/www/nextcloud to directly get the NC via www.mydomain.de instead of www.mydomain.de/nextcloud

Now, the LE-certificate has expired. To renew it, I had to - temporarely - turn the config back to /var/www. Renewal was successful. But then - after turning the config back to /var/www/nextcloud the certificate is not shown. There is still the old one.

Is there a way to get this constallation done, or is it better to leave the document-root to /var/www (then also certbot automatically can renew the certificate).

Thanks for any hint and support
Rocky

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Hi,

Why did you need to revert to /var/www ? Seems like you should just use the webroot command and tell certbot which is your active web root directory.

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thanks for reply. So what would then be the correct command for renewal ?
certbot renew --webroot ?

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well I would re-issue an new cert so
certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/nexcloud -d www.mydomain.de with your real domain.
If certbot says that certs are not yet due to renewal then you would need to do this command first certbot revoke --cert-name www.mydomain.de and delete the cert.
and when you need to renew your cert simple enter: certbot renew.

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thanks a lot ! I will test it. Does this command also work with --dry-run ?

It does :slight_smile: and seems to work. Thanks again

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today I updated my certificate via the described command. Even though the update-process was successfull, my webbrowser(s) still show the existing certificate.
a restart of lighttpd (and also the system) didn’t help.
How can I switch to the new certificate ?

thanks in advice