# Let's Encrypt SSL certificate not renewing automatically 2nd time consecutively **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-not-renewing-automatically-2nd-time-consecutively/394304 **Category:** Support **Tags:** letsencrypt **Created:** [January 25, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-not-renewing-automatically-2nd-time-consecutively/394304 "2026-01-25T23:22:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![jbrains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jbrains/32/208183_2.png) [@jbrains](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jbrains) #### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-not-renewing-automatically-2nd-time-consecutively/394304/1 "2026-01-25T23:22:11Z")
Hi, folks. I need some help troubleshooting. For the second straight time, my Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate did not renew automatically. In reading the relevant threads here, I managed each time to renew the certificate by removing the old one and rebuilding the app. I was under the impression that doing this would cause the renewal to happen automatically next time. It did not. I don’t see any evidence of a `cron` job running anywhere that tries to renew the certificate. I presume I ought to look in the various places on the host machine, as opposed to inside the Docker container. Do I have that right? `crontab -l` says “no crontab for root” and I see nothing in `/etc/cron*`. As a result, I can’t feel confident whether my server is (1) not attempting to renew the certificate or (2) attempting and failing. Is someone willing to guide me through troubleshooting this? Unfortunately, since I nuked `shared/standalone/{letsencrypt,ssl}` in order to provision the certificate anew, I don’t have old logs to look through. How would I at least verify that the `cron` job is installed so that I can check the logs the next time the system attempts to renew the certificate? Thanks. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-not-renewing-automatically-2nd-time-consecutively/394304)._