From a67c484494d12f6c3e18f01a4716ed78a42f92e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuriy Tymchuk Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:38:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the certbot step for nginx (#735) The current comment says that you need to cheese to create a new cert. However, certbot gives you the following options: What would you like to do? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: Keep the existing certificate for now 2: Renew & replace the cert (limit ~5 per 7 days) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not clear that renewing & replacing means to create a new one --- Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md b/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md index 3b01b767..db812eea 100644 --- a/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md +++ b/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ After that successfully completes, we will use the webroot method. This requires ```sh systemctl start nginx -# The certbot tool will ask if you want issue a new cert, please choose that option +# The certbot tool will ask if you want to keep the existing certificate or renew it. Choose to renew it. certbot certonly --webroot -d example.com -w /home/mastodon/live/public/ ```