Letsencrypt Renew SSL Certificate with Nginx Portable

 

Renewal SSL certificate sometime made you become crazy if you don't know how to resolve some special case. Maybe after you try and try twice or three times got failed, you must check the details.

$ systemctl status nginx.service && journalctl -xeu nginx.service

In this case, if you have nginx on your server running portable, do this magic stuff.

$ sudo certbot --nginx --config-dir /opt/myapp/share/nginx/certs -d myapp.example.com

to kill existing running port of 80

$ sudo fuser -k 80/tcp

Restart your nginx

$ sudo systemctl stop nginx

$ sudo systemctl start nginx

Test your domain now https://myapp.example.com

Source :

https://www.google.com/search?q=certbot+generate+certificate+nginx+custom+path