I think it’s been years since I’ve seen a let’s encrypt certificate fail to renew, but I’ve had three sites in the past week or two that have stale certificates. A rebuild fixes it and I have heretofore failed to look for clues in the logs. Next time I’ll do a bit more to diagnose the problem before fixing it for the site.

[image] pfaffman: I think it’s been years since I’ve seen a let’s encrypt certificate fail to renew, but I’ve had three sites in the past week or two that have stale certificates. I thnink that this commit solves the problem, and I bet the sites with this issue are before this commit https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/commit/2909a162475ca0e5cbdb69059ff0254c820b1963

Please see: Transitioning to ISRG's Root - Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021) - Let's Encrypt

Thanks, Daniela! That does seem like it may be related, but I can’t tell what to do about it or how to know if a site should force getting a new certificate. I just checked a handful of sites and several have renewed in the past few days. I believe in all cases the certificate had expired (I double-checked only the one that I just fixed), so the more I think about it, the less I think this explains it–unless some of these sites had an old enough base image that it would fail to retrieve a new certificate because that base image had an out-of-date root certificate? AH! That might explain it. Another docker-based Debian 9 site that I manage is getting errors using curl because its root image is bad.

Here’s the list of images from the site that I just upgraded (looks like time for a ./launcher cleanup!). So I guess it was 2.0.20210528-1735? REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE local_discourse/app latest dab985be22b0 17 minutes ago 2.84GB discourse/base 2.0.20210528-1735 482386bf57af 4 months ago 2.36GB 38be7702e0fc 5 months ago 2.75GB discourse/base 2.0.20210415-1332 30e4746e631e 5 months ago 2.23GB discourse/base 2.0.20201221-2020 c0704d4ce2b4 9 months ago 2.11GB discourse/base 2.0.20201004-2310 b64c37d7ab06 12 months ago 2.4GB discourse/base 2.0.20200429-2110 dc919e1dae2c 17 months ago 2.13GB local_discourse/mail-receiver latest 711fb527de35 21 months ago 128MB discourse/base 2.0.20191219-2109 4a99baef7044 21 months ago 2.23GB discourse/mail-receiver release 06fe375fe2c8 22 months ago 128MB discourse/base 2.0.20190901-2315 10f636afbeaf 2 years ago 2.29GB discourse/base 2.0.20190625-0946 2b3a5b47565f 2 years ago 1.93GB discourse/base 2.0.20190505-2322 ed87227f60d2 2 years ago 1.91GB discourse/base 2.0.20190321-0122 7db99586b5b5 2 years ago 1.97GB discourse/mail-receiver 1.1.2 44042627246b 4 years ago 142MB Here’s the certificate info for the last certificate: Issued On Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 7:31:09 PM Expires On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:31:08 PM It doesn’t seem to be all or many sites, though. [image] Falco: Oh so the information is lost here. Right. It’s just the 3rd time it’s happened and each time I’ve made getting the site back online the priority. Next time I’ll try to make better notes. See the calls to acme.sh in the logs, but the output goes to /dev/null.

[image] pfaffman: that I just upgraded Oh so the information is lost here. We would need to know which was source of the parent layer of the old local_discourse/app. I have a test site with the latest image and the certificate was renewed last week just fine.

[image] Falco: I have a test site with the latest image and the certificate was renewed last week just fine. Yeah. And I just looked at half a dozen others and they’re all fine too. I guess I should have tagged this #mystery.

I have the same problem. Just rebuild, but my discourse let’s encrypt certificate doesn’t renew. How could I check my installation?

Aha! It’s that error having to do with using ZeroSSL as the default CA. Now I remember that being a problem in the semi-recent past. Here’s one that I haven’t rebuilt yet: root@community:~# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 9b97fe9b5c22 local_discourse/web_only "/sbin/boot" 9 months ago Up 5 days 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp web_only b3eae8a90cd7 local_discourse/mail-receiver "/sbin/boot" 9 months ago Up 5 days 0.0.0.0:25->25/tcp mail-receiver 5e90805e6d0d local_discourse/data "/sbin/boot" 9 months ago Up 5 days data root@community:~# docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE local_discourse/web_only latest ffd890f053e7 9 months ago 2.39GB local_discourse/mail-receiver latest 0d49c641ca25 9 months ago 128MB e53ed7c5db0f 9 months ago 2.34GB local_discourse/data latest 8c1539b06db4 9 months ago 2.15GB discourse/base 2.0.20201221-2020 c0704d4ce2b4 9 months ago 2.11GB discourse/base 2.0.20201208-1739 9da970f9c0bd 9 months ago 2.1GB discourse/mail-receiver release 06fe375fe2c8 22 months ago 128MB And when I run the acme command in the container, I get this: root@community-web-only:/# "/shared/letsencrypt"/acme.sh --cron --home "/shared/letsencrypt" [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:39 PM UTC] ===Starting cron=== [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:39 PM UTC] Already uptodate! [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:39 PM UTC] Upgrade success! [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:39 PM UTC] Auto upgraded to: 3.0.1 [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:39 PM UTC] Renew: 'community.thedaily9.in' [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] Using CA: https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90 [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] No EAB credentials found for ZeroSSL, let's get one [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] acme.sh is using ZeroSSL as default CA now. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] Please update your account with an email address first. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] acme.sh --register-account -m my@example.com [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] See: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/ZeroSSL.com-CA [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] Please check log file for more details: /shared/letsencrypt/acme.sh.log [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] Error renew community.thedaily9.in. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:41 PM UTC] Renew: 'community.thedaily9.in' [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] Using CA: https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90 [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] No EAB credentials found for ZeroSSL, let's get one [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] acme.sh is using ZeroSSL as default CA now. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] Please update your account with an email address first. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] acme.sh --register-account -m my@example.com [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] See: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/ZeroSSL.com-CA [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] Please check log file for more details: /shared/letsencrypt/acme.sh.log [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] Error renew community.thedaily9.in_ecc. [Mon 04 Oct 2021 02:01:43 PM UTC] ===End cron=== root@community-web-only:/#

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How old is the Discourse base image in those sites? Please share the exact image tag.

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