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[SOLVED] Can't renew cert on a self-hosted lemmy instance D: (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sol6_vi to c/selfhosted

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EDIT: Thanks everyone for your time and responses. To break as little as possible attempting to fix this I've opted to go with ZeroSSL's DNS process to acquire a new cert. I wish I could use this process for all of my certs as it was very quick and easy. Now I just have to figure out the error message lemmy is throwing about not being able to run scripts.

Thank you all for your time sincerely. I understand a lot more than I did last night.

Original Post

As the title says I'm unable to renew a cert on a self-hosted lemmy instance. A friend of mine just passed away and he had his hands all up in this and had it working like magic. I'm not an idiot and have done a ton of the legwork to get our server running and working - but lemmy specifically required a bit of fadanglin' to get working correctly. Unfortunately he's not here to ask for help, so I'm turning to you guys. I haven't had a problem with any of my other software such as nextcloud or pixelfed but for some reason lemmy just refuses to cooperate. I'm using acme.sh to renew the cert because that's what my buddy was using when he had set this all up. I'm running apache2 on a bare metal ubuntu server.

Here's my httpd-ssl.conf:

https://pastebin.com/YehfTPNV

Here's some recent output from my acme.sh/acme.log:

https://pastebin.com/PESVVNg4

Here's the terminal read out and what I'm attempting to execute:

https://pastebin.com/jfHfiaE0

If you can make any suggestions at all on what I might be missing or what may be configured incorrectly I'd greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction as I'm ripping my hair out.

Thank you kindly for your time.

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[–] sol6_vi 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My friend chose it, he was old school. I don't personally have a preference between the two but we use this server for our small business so I haven't really wanted to risk messing everything up to switch when it's (mostly) currently functional.

[–] roofuskit 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woah, you have a Lemmy instance hosted on the server for your small business? That just doesn't sit well with me. I hope the server going down would not halt your income.

[–] sol6_vi 2 points 1 week ago

We are a community oriented business and I really hate the big tech companies controlling the fate of my company. Lemmy seemed like one of a few easy alternative platforms where we were free from being stuck under the thumb of a tech giant or a ban away from loosing our members.