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Delete LetsEncrypt Certificate from chain

Deac Karns

Mar 22, 2017 • 1 min read

Ok, so LetsEncrypt is awesome but it has one MAJOR pitfall as of version 0.4.1-1 on Ubuntu, there is no delete option for the cli.

There is however a workaround that will allow you to remove the domain from the cert renewal process and the chain.

sudo rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/live/[Domain]
sudo rm -rf /etc/letsencrypt/archive/[Domain]
sudo rm /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/[Domain].conf

I have found that you must also remove the virtual host configuration from the /etc/sites-enabled directory as well as well as the sites webroot directory in /var/www/html/[Domain]

sudo a2dissite [Domain]
sudo service apache2 reload

sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-available/[Domain]
sudo rm /var/www/html/[Domain]

After completing these actions the domain will no longer attempt to renew with your cron job, and it will not show up in the ncurses menu when you run letsencrypt