Hello. My Discourse is up-to-date with version 3.2.0.beta3-dev. Still, yesterday by 5 pm European time the site went down (wespenreboards.com), and it’s obviously a certificate issue (see attachment. Open in New Tab and enlarge), so, I ran the following code in my console:
Looking over the topic from the last time the certificate needed renewing, I think it could be that one of the commands from the three didn’t work as expected:
Have you got the output of those handy you could share so we can better see where it’s failing?
SSL certificates are generated automatically as part of a Discourse install, and are also renewed automatically.
I think in this case something has gone awry with the rebuild/bootstrap (Wes unfortunately has issues every 3 months when the certificate is due to be renewed).
Ah cool. My site was initially setup by a friend vps side…When I changed it from a testing site. Used a domain provider that provides ssl cert. So both my friend and the company rach opted out then. Pain with the company as they are always forgetting often on their end yo renew it.
I ran the certificate renewal once more in the console, and now it seems to be working! Must have been a glitch the first time.
Yes, for some reason I apparently need to update the cert every three months, even though I am upgrading Discourse right away when the upgrade is available.
Next time, in two months you should check and not wait until it expires. It would renew after 60 days. Set a reminder somewhere. Uptime robot will send you a reminder I think, but not on their free tier.
Do you use cloudflare or something else on front of your discourse install?