Subj : Installing manually obtai
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Feb 16 2026 09:27 am

>  > Back to the letsyncrypt bug... after reading up on how Let's Encrypt works,
>  > I can figure out the following:

>  > (1) at some point, letsyncrypt hit an error that it either reported or
>  > didn't know what to do with;
>  > (2) after that, it kept reporting '0' even though it was *not* working
>  > (BUG!);

> letsyncrypt doesn't re-request a signed-certificate every time you run it. It
> has built-in expiration for the cert and will do *nothing* if you just run it
> without any options, until the cert times out or you specify an option to forc
> it do something. That's not a "BUG!".

What you are saying here assumes there was a signed cert in place with an
expiration.  The problem is that there wasn't one because letsyncrypt
at some point failed to get one.

No signed-certificate = no expiration date = "doing *nothing*" = BUG!

It should keep trying to get one until it is successful.  If it isn't = BUG!

>  > (3) by the time the cert expired, evidence of whatever problem letsyncypt
>  > had (assuming it reported it to begin with) was long gone;

> Did you check your web server log output like I already suggested? It should
> explain what's happening when it's requesting the challenge file that
> letsyncrypt.js creates (but couldn't be retreived by the Let's Encrypt ACME
> service or whatever it is)?

See my "long gone" comment above.  Whenever letsyncrypt dropped its deuce,
it wasn't initially noticed and whatever logs its oopsie got written in
are no longer here.

I provided the output of what some of the more recent attempts, with
command lines, did.

There is no reason for me to bother with it now. haproxy saved the day and,
because it reads the pem files directly instead of requiring them to be
converted into some nonsense format (that can only be generated by buggy
letsyncrypt), it is easier to use and figure out.


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