From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
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Renew Let's Encrypt certificates - SSL Tutorial
From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
Renew Let's Encrypt certificates
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're gonna learn how to renew Let's Encrypt Certificates. Let's Encrypt Certificates are only valid for 90 days and since we wanna renew our certificates at least a month before they expire, that means that about every 60 days, these have to be renewed. That means that we'll be renewing our certificates six times a year. That's a lot of work, and a lotta things that we have to remember. So we wanna make sure that we have a good easy way to do it, and that we automate that process as much as possible. Fortunately for us, Certbot includes a feature to allow us to renew those certificates and that makes it much easier. When we run the Certbot program and ask it to renew it will first check and see whether the certificate expires in less than 30 days. If it's more than 30 days away, then it does nothing. If the certificate is less than 30 days though, then it goes ahead and renews for us and it does that using the same options that we used originally when we…
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