nabbisenIn order to revew Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates (via not HTTP-01 challenge but DNS-01 challenge) with certbot, all what to do is to follow the same process of the first time.
Just run:
# certbot certonly --manual --manual-public-ip-logging-ok --preferred-challenges dns-01 --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory -d "*.<your-domain>" -d <your-domain>
The result begins with:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator manual, Installer None
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
dns-01 challenge for <your-domain>
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and then is followed by:
Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name
_acme-challenge.<your-domain> with the following value:
<txt-record-value-given>
Before continuing, verify the record is deployed.
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Press Enter to Continue
Write <txt-record-value-given> into the DNS TXT record named "_acme-challenge" of the domain.
After a while, press Enter.
The result is:
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/<your-domain>/fullchain.pem
Your key file has been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/<your-domain>/privkey.pem
Your cert will expire on 2019-10-08. To obtain a new or tweaked
version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot
again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run
"certbot renew"
- If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by:
Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate
Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le
Now it's done :)
Besides, if you use:
# certbot renew
the error occurs:
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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/<your-domain>.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',)
Attempting to renew cert (<your-domain>) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/<your-domain>.conf produced an unexpected error: The manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',). Skipping.
