Resolved Letsencrypt monthly renew

[Marc77]

Hi,

with letsencrypt a certificate has to be renewd within 3 months. Plesk do this job monthly. Is it possible to change it from 1 month to 2 month or 3 month?

Reason is, that I have to manully add this certificate to my cdn provider and 1 month is a bit short.

Thanks

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Marc77,

with letsencrypt a certificate has to be renewd within 3 months. Plesk do this job monthly. Is it possible to change it from 1 month to 2 month or 3 month?

it IS possible, but not recommended ( reason will follow below as additional information ).

=> Home > Tools & Settings > Scheduled Tasks > (name of the task ) Extension letsencrypt
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Additional information:

Pls. keep in mind the following situation:

domainA.com => Let's Encrypt certificate issued => 01.01.2017, first available renew => 60 days after issuing day => 01.03.2017 => expire date: 31.03.2017
domainB.com => Let's Encrypt certificate issued => 01.02.2017, first available renew => 60 days after issuing day => 01.04.2017 => expire date: 31.04.2017
domainC.com => Let's Encrypt certificate issued => 01.03.2017, first available renew => 60 days after issuing day => 30.04.2017 => expire date: 29.05.2017

Task scheduled to:

01.03.2017
(01.04.2017)
01.05.2017
(01.06.2017)
01.07.2017​

Let's Encrypt task: Scheduled every first day of the month will cover each possible renewing day of the three certificates, while a scheduled task of 2 months for example will not cover all first possible renew dates. ​

 

[Marc77]

Ok, thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I see the problem.

in this case, I have created all certificates today. That means they will all expire together and I set the cron to 60 days. Its still 30 days before they will expire.

This should work, right?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Marc77,

as I wrote, it IS possible, but not recommended... just imagine, adding new (sub)domains in the future - I can nearly assure you, that you will accidently miss a renew - date.