How to renew only one domain with certbot?

Question

I have multiple domains with multiple certificates:

$ ll /etc/letsencrypt/live/ > domain1.com > domain2.com > domain3.com > ... 

I need to renew only domain1.com, but the command certbot renew renews certificates for all domains. How can I renew certain certificate explicitly?

Answer 1

Renew a single certificate using renew with the --cert-name option.

(certonly creates a certificate for one or more domains, replacing it if exists).

Example

certbot renew --cert-name domain1.com --dry-run 

Remove --dry-run to actually renew.

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Cert-name != Domain name

Note that the value supplied to --cert-name option is a certificate name (not a domain name) found using

certbot certificates 

Returning a list like

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found the following certs:   Certificate Name: myfundomains.com     Domains: myfundomains.com     Expiry Date: 2018-05-04 04:28:05+00:00 (VALID: 67 days)     Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/myfundomains.com/fullchain.pem     Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/myfundomains.com/privkey.pem   Certificate Name: ask.myfundomain.com     Domains: ask.myfundomain.com     Expiry Date: 2018-03-13 18:59:40+00:00 (VALID: 16 days)     Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/ask.myfundomain.com/fullchain.pem     Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/ask.myfundomain.com/privkey.pem   Certificate Name: forums.myfundomain.com     Domains: forums.myfundomain.com forum.myfundomain.com     Expiry Date: 2018-04-11 16:39:18+00:00 (VALID: 45 days)     Certificate Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/forums.myfundomain.com/fullchain.pem     Private Key Path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/forums.myfundomain.com/privkey.pem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Notice how the third Certificate name (forums.myfundomain.com) contains multiple domains:

• forums.myfundomains.com
• forum.myfundomains.com

Restart Apache / nginx

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- new certificate deployed without reload, fullchain is /etc/letsencrypt/live/ask.myfundomain.com/fullchain.pem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Remember to restart your webserver to make use of the new certificate.