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[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network [S] 47 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (7 children)

I know. A friend of mine runs a small private server where I host my stuff, and the SSL cert expires every now and then, it'll be down for a while until he wakes up and pokes it.

I guess for this one I can edit it and just upload the image directly (I don't normally do that so I don't use too much of the server's bandwidth.)

Boo technical issues.

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[–] Hope@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

You can usually have a job autorenew the certificate, which would help with the downtime.

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[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network [S] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I think he likes his setup - because he's running a bunch of different spaces for people, it gives him the impetus to check in on them.

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

FWIW CertBot does send an email when your cert is about to expire, and then renews it for you.

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[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network [S] 9 points 3 years ago

I am informed that the server does, in fact, run certbot - and certbot invalidated the certificate :)

It's fixed now.

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[–] ipha@lemm.ee 8 points 3 years ago

Yeah, a simple cron job fixed the issue.

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[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

Every now and then is every 90 days.

I see he is using a simple Self-signed one; they're often quite easy to automate. While just tangential to my proficiency I could have a quick chat with him and then throw the appropriate tutorials for the specific hosting solution (and a helping hand, if needed) at him to never have to renew it manually again.

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[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network [S] 2 points 3 years ago

Nah, he knows what he's doing. As I understand it, one of the other hosted domains on his server pointed their domain off-server, and this triggers a review. I understand that invalidating the certificate until it's checked is the desirable outcome.