• Our team is looking to connect with folks who use email services provided by Plesk, or a premium service. If you'd like to be part of the discovery process and share your experiences, we invite you to complete this short screening survey. If your responses match the persona we are looking for, you'll receive a link to schedule a call at your convenience. We look forward to hearing from you!
  • We are looking for U.S.-based freelancer or agency working with SEO or WordPress for a quick 30-min interviews to gather feedback on XOVI, a successful German SEO tool we’re looking to launch in the U.S.
    If you qualify and participate, you’ll receive a $30 Amazon gift card as a thank-you. Please apply here. Thanks for helping shape a better SEO product for agencies!
  • The BIND DNS server has already been deprecated and removed from Plesk for Windows.
    If a Plesk for Windows server is still using BIND, the upgrade to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.70 will be unavailable until the administrator switches the DNS server to Microsoft DNS. We strongly recommend transitioning to Microsoft DNS within the next 6 weeks, before the Plesk 18.0.70 release.
  • The Horde component is removed from Plesk Installer. We recommend switching to another webmail software supported in Plesk.

Issue Let's Encrypt Bulk Domain Renewal

M

MacGyver

Basic Pleskian
Server operating system version
CentOS Linux 7.9.2009 (Core)
Plesk version and microupdate number
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.68 Update #2 Web Pro Edition
This question is regarding the Plesk article, "How to renew Let's Encrypt certificates for all domains at once?" which can be found here:

When following the article's directions, it does renew the Server Root Certificate; however, I can't seem to get it to renew the certificates for the domains hosted on the server. Is there something not included in the article that needs to be enabled for each domain?

Also, yes, the certificates are set to renew automatically; however, since Let's Encrypt changed their policy the renewals fail due to GEO Blocking. Due to security policies we are required to block several countries, and Let's Encrypt does not publish IPs for us to be able to white list. Therefore, I have to manually renew all the certs every few months. If I could renew them all at once, it would take at least one thing off my plate.

Any help on this would be very much appreciated.
 
Sebahat.hadzhi said:
Can you try temporarily enabling the Plesk debug mode, running the SSL task again and confirm what entries are logged in panel.log?
Click to expand...
Thank you for the reply. I hope I was able to gather the information you requested. I have to remote a machine that connects to the server, so I had to gain one entry using a screenshot.

As you requested, I did place Plesk into Debug Mode using Panel.ini Editor. I then used Panel.ini to enable the lines necessary to renew Let's Encrypt:

[ext-letsencrypt]
renew-before-expiration = 365

From there, I ran the SSL.

This is a copy of the pop-up from the bottom right of the page after running the SSL:

Task "/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/sslit/scripts/keep-secured.php'" successfully completed in 1 seconds. See details
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [0] SQL: connect [2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [0] END: 0.00016 sec [2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [1] SQL: SET sql_mode = '' [2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [1] END: 0.00005 sec [2025-04-05 14:56:49.376] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [2] SQL: select param, val from misc [2025-04-05 14:56:49.377] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [2]...
Click to expand...

When I click on the details button I see this:

Task "/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/sslit/scripts/keep-secured.php'" successfully completed in 1 seconds, output:

[2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [0] SQL: connect
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [0] END: 0.00016 sec
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [1] SQL: SET sql_mode = ''
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.375] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [1] END: 0.00005 sec
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.376] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [2] SQL: select param, val from misc
[2025-04-05 14:56:49.377] 71264:67f18b015b741 DEBUG [dbquery] [2]...
Click to expand...

After that, I went to check the Panel.log. As I was remoted via another machine, I first went to check it in the GUI. However, there were no new entries after running the SSL, so I went to the Terminal in Plesk and ran the following:

cd /var/log/plesk/
less panel.log
Click to expand...

The following/attached is a screenshot of the output:

1743885452761.png

If I renew each domain as well as the root manually, it works flawlessly. However, this time it did not renew the root certificate either.

Thank you again for your willingness to help.
 
Thank you for the update. It appears the SSL script is running successfully and there are no entries logged. Judging by the dates of the log entries on the last screenshot, I don't think they are relevant. I am afraid, I have no suggestion on what might be causing the issue with the bulk SSL renewal. I would suggest opening a ticket with Plesk support for an investigation of the issue on your server. If you haven't already, please disable the debug mode to avoid any issues.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

S
Issue Let's Encrypt/SSL It! empty domain name error
Replies
8
Views
1K
SilentWarrior
S
W
Question Wanted: Best practice for certificates (Lets Encrypt) two separate Plesk servers for www and mail
2
Replies
20
Views
2K
W4ru
W
D
Question Renewing Let's encrypt automatically
Replies
6
Views
2K
iainh
I
L
Issue ( authorization token is unavailable ) Could not issue/renew Let`s Encrypt certificates
Replies
7
Views
2K
Leta
L
D
Issue Automatic renewal via SSLit doesn't work for wildcard certificates
Replies
4
Views
2K
sudo
S
Back
Top