Documentation about Let's Encrypt is wrong

[Flaburgan]

Hello,

After migrating my snap to another Ubuntu installation, I had to change the domain names for which Certbot had to renew the SSL certificate. The documentation says:

remove all/any certificates that are there (this includes self-signed certs, Let’s Encrypt certs, everything). Make sure you get this command right, you don’t want to delete anything else in the current/ dir:

$ sudo rm -rf /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs

And then asks to run sudo nextcloud.enable-https lets-encrypt.

If one does so, this second commands is failing with:

Attempting to obtain certificates... error running certbot:
/var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/certbot does not exist or is not a directory

To fix this I had to manually recreate the certs and then cerbot directories.

So, the documentation looks wrong, why do we need to rm -rf the directories and not only the content? Or why should we remove the certificates anyway?

[scubamuc]

@Flaburgan Thanks for pointing this out.
Do you have a better suggestion? Please post here, We'll gladly change the docs.

@kyrofa had suggested this method in a solved issue. Could you check the Wiki and suggest alternative?

I have no way of double checking that this works since my encryption is managed by reverse proxy.

[scubamuc]

@kyrofa I'd like to suggest something like this:

sudo rm /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/keys/*.pem

and

sudo rm -rf /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/live/

because of:

would you agree?

[kyrofa]

Yeah whatever we put there, someone should confirm!

[pachulo]

I've just been hit by this 😓 so yeah, doc is wrong.

@kyrofa I'd like to suggest something like this:
sudo rm /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/keys/*.pem
and
sudo rm -rf /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/live/

@scubamuc what about doing this after the original rm command?
sudo mkdir -p /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/certbot

[scubamuc]

@pachulo thanks, added your suggestion in Wiki

Please confirm

[pachulo]

Yes, that's right @scubamuc ! Thanks!