Re: Cron job for Apache managed Letsencrypt TLS certs

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 12:23 Tom Browder <tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have all my websites using Apache's managed certs. Up to now I have been restarting them periodically manually as root executing "apachectl graceful" and then checking to see if the update happened. I have for a long time been meaning to do that as a cron job, but haven't set one up in a great while.

With all due thanks and respect to responders to my original question, I think I need to break it into pieces:

1. Is anyone using Apache's experimental "managed domain" (mod_md) for taking care of Letsencrypt TLS cert handling? If not, please do not respond.

2. If, and only if, that is true, a few questions:

    a. How do you manage the required restarts to make the system work correctly? 

    b. Do you use "apachectl" or "systemctl" to control restarts?

    c. If you use a cron job, are you willing to share the pertinent lines?

Thanks,

-Tom