Hi all,

 

Basic setup is Unraid 6.9.2 with the Swag docker installed and running away perfectly (I use it for a reverse proxy for my family to use Unraid, having followed SpaceInvaderOne's guide to set up.) The docker itself works perfectly, My family and I can access my Emby library from on and off the lan (duckdns used also.) However, I received an email recently from [email protected], stating my Swag certificates were expiring soon. 

 

My server turns off every evening at midnight, and starts back up every day at 16:00, so having googled this problem, most advice was that simply restarting the Swag docker would renew the certs (obviously this isn't happening for me, as my whole server restarts daily.) 

 

I found some info which allowed me to renew my certificates manually, by using the following instructions:

Open console for the specific docker (Swag) by clicking the docker name, and then choosing the console.
Type: certbot renew

 

^^ This seems to have resolved the issue of the cert not renewing automatically. However I'm concerned that I'll have to do this every few months & maybe forget altogether. So my question is this, how on earth can I automate the renewal myself? I can access the terminal through the Unraid GUI, but after that I'm lost. I'm comfortable typing in commands, but automating this process is a step beyond my knowledge. 

 

I have the User Scripts plugin installed, and I use this to shutdown my system every night. As for how I'd use this plugin though to automate cert renewal, I'm not sure. I think I'd have to write a script, and then point to that script in the plugin & then set the schedule? Can anyone help?

 

EDIT:

 

This is from my Swag docker log

 

[cont-init.d] 60-renew: executing...
The cert does not expire within the next day. Letting the cron script handle the renewal attempts overnight (2:08am).
[cont-init.d] 60-renew: exited 0.

 

So perhaps the docker is set to renew automatically at 02:08 - and therein lies the problem because my Server is offline at that time?

Edited June 27, 20215 yr by Unrayed

If there's one best bet is to use the existing docker support thread:

 

Thanks, I'll check that now