Renew letsencrypt certificate in nginx on Centos

To renew your letsencrypt certificate,

please follow the following steps

First you need to stop the nginx service on centos using the following command

[root@manivel]# service nginx stop
Stopping nginx:                                            [  OK  ]

[root@manivel]#Go to the letsencrypt folder and run the following commands to renew the certificate,


[root@manivel letsencrypt]# ./certbot-auto renew

./certbot-auto renewSaving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/manivel.com.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Plugins selected: Authenticator standalone, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for nginx.manivel.com
tls-sni-01 challenge for mail.manivel.com
Waiting for verification...Cleaning up challenges

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new certificate deployed without reload, fullchain is
/etc/letsencrypt/live/manivel.com/fullchain.pem
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Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. The following certs have been renewed:
  /etc/letsencrypt/live/manivel.com/fullchain.pem (success)
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[root@manivel letsencrypt]# 


Start the nginx service using the following command


[root@manivel letsencrypt]# service nginx start 
Startting nginx:                                            [  OK  ]

[root@manivel letsencrypt]#
Now you have successfully renewed your letsencrypt ssl certificate.