searx/searx-docker

how to renew Letsencrypt certificate

hakova opened this issue · 3 comments

hakova commented

I am sure the answer to this silly question would be very straight forward. Would you please help me in renewing my Letsencrypt certificate, which I believe was obtained by Caddy?

Thanks!

unixfox commented

Caddy automatically renew it by itself, no interaction is needed from you.

unixfox commented

@hakova any more question about that?

hakova commented

Thank you @unixfox for your comment. I have forwarded unconventional ports from my router to my home server, not 80 or 443, and I believe this messed up Caddy's automatic renewal. This is what I did to get this work, and I am posting below the solution for someone who may have a similar configuration, for future reference:

  • I edited the Caddyfile for http and https ports to match 80 and 443 respectively
  • I stopped the searx-docker.service
  • I forwarded these ports from the router to the server
  • I restarted the searx-docker.service, which succeeded in renewing the certificates but failed in starting filtron
  • I stopped the searx-docker.service again, re-edited the Caddyfile to its original state to point to the unconventional http and https ports
  • I restarted the searx-docker service
  • I cancelled forwarding ports 80 and 443 from the router to the server
  • I started enjoying my searx server again with my renewed certificate 🥇