Manual (authenticator)

certbot renew
certbot certonly

Configuration

Certbot renew configuration examples

renew_hook = systemctl reload nginx

Errors

Certbot renew configuration examples

Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/DOMAIN.com.conf
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The manual plugin is not working; there 
may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',)
Attempting to renew cert (DOMAIN.com) from 
/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/DOMAIN.com.conf produced an unexpected error: The 
manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing 
configuration.
The error was: PluginError('An authentication script must be provided with --manual-auth-hook when using the manual plugin non-interactively.',). 
Skipping.
The following certs could not be renewed:
 /etc/letsencrypt/live/DOMAIN.com/fullchain.pem (failure)

Related terms

• Authenticator
• certbot certonly --manual
• when: on_success, manual, always, on_failure, delayed, never

See also

• Certbot, Let's Encrypt: certbot (command), plugins, OCSP, certbot certificates, certbot renew (examples), /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log, Certificate Checker, Certbot changelog, certbot --help, /etc/letsencrypt/