# Can't Update my Certificate

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-my-certificate/283084
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** two-container
**Created:** [October 23, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-my-certificate/283084 "2023-10-23T09:13:56Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-my-certificate/283084/2 "2023-10-23T09:32:32Z")

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Oh no, not again. 🙂

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:

> [@Discourse Went Down Suddenly. No one can log in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-went-down-suddenly-no-one-can-log-in/272552/26):
>
> > [@Discourse Went Down Suddenly. No one can log in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-went-down-suddenly-no-one-can-log-in/272552/25):
> >
> > Why did this happen in the first place, do you know?
> 
> I might make a guess. Presumably according to some instructions, you did this:
> 
> > [@Discourse Went Down Suddenly. No one can log in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-went-down-suddenly-no-one-can-log-in/272552/1):
> >
> > ```plaintext
> > ./launcher bootstrap web_only && ./launcher destroy web_only && ./launcher start web_only
> > 
> > ```
> 
> The meaning of that is to run the bootstrap command, and then - if it is successful - to run the destroy, and then - if that was successful - to run the start. I suspect one of the first two was not successful, and so the start command wasn’t executed.
> 
> If you have the transcript for that earlier attempt, that might be informative.
> 
> If indeed one of those commands failed, that might indicate that something still needs to be attended to. But at least you are running.

Have you got the output of those handy you could share so we can better see where it’s failing?

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