peternlewis reported that their site went down due to an expired SSL certificate, requiring a manual ./launcher rebuild app to restore service and renew the certificate. They questioned why automatic renewal failed, noting the system did not alert them to necessary updates previously. Andrew_Rowe inquired about the software version, suggesting a potential link to a known bug from a few months ago or a recent version naming change affecting alerts. peternlewis confirmed their installation was updated to version 2026.1.0 after the rebuild. Andrew_Rowe hypothesized that the issue might have been a transient bug that was already fixed. Consequently, peternlewis decided to rely on a personal calendar alert for future expirations, acknowledging their previous alert was not assertive enough to prevent the outage.
Damn, so after this last time:
I woke up this morning to my site being down because the certificate has expired.
I did a ./launcher rebuild app and that renewed the certificate so at least my site is back up now, but why is the certificate not being renewed automatically?
I feel like this popped up a couple months back, how up to date is your version?
Since I rebuilt, it is definitely up to date now (and I checked and it is 2026.1.0).
It was not alerting me about necessary updates, so I’m not sure what it was before. Maybe it doesn’t alert me about needed updates any more?
umm… I think there may have been a version naming change recently that maybe effected the alerts??? I’m guessing here
But I thought a month or two back there was a buggy that caused certs not to renew and it got fixed pretty quick
OK, well, hopefully that was it, I’ve got a calendar alert for a few weeks before the next expiry so I’ll double check it (sadly, I had one for this expiry too but the alert was not assertive enough to get my attention!). Thanks.