#!/usr/bin/env bash # # JbTecWiz Support Centre -- generated fix script # # Fault : Certificate renewal fails and the site goes to expired HTTPS # Fix : Repair the HTTP challenge path # Source: https://jbtecwiz.com/support/lnx-web-certbot # # Run as : Root shell # Expect : 30 minutes # Risk : medium # Reversible : yes # # WHEN THIS IS THE RIGHT FIX # HTTP-01 validation. The challenge file has to be reachable over plain # HTTP from the internet. # # HOW TO UNDO IT # The existing certificate is untouched until a renewal succeeds. # # Walks the fix one step at a time and asks before each. Steps with no # command are yours to do -- it prints those and waits. DRYRUN=1 prints # without executing; UNATTENDED=1 does not ask. # # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # NO WARRANTY - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK # # This script is provided by JbTecWiz as-is and with no warranty of any # kind, express or implied. You run it entirely at your own risk. # # JbTecWiz accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from its # use, including but not limited to data loss, downtime, or configuration # changes that turn out to be wrong for your system. # # You are responsible for reading this script before running it, for # satisfying yourself that it suits the machine in front of you, and for # having a working backup first. Some steps cannot be undone. # -------------------------------------------------------------------- set -uo pipefail DRYRUN="${DRYRUN:-0}" UNATTENDED="${UNATTENDED:-0}" failed=0 # - THIS SCRIPT WILL NOT RUN UNTIL YOU EDIT IT - cat >&2 <<'EOF' This script needs editing before it can run. Replace each of these with a real value: example.com (a placeholder domain) Then delete this block near the top of the script. EOF exit 2 if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo " This fix is documented as needing root. Re-run with sudo." >&2 exit 3 fi rule() { printf "\n%s\n" "$(printf '-%.0s' $(seq 1 70))"; if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then echo "$1"; fi; } prose() { echo "$1" | fold -s -w 74 | sed "s/^/ /"; } # Returns 0 when the caller should run the command, 1 when it should not. # A manual step always returns 1 -- there is nothing for the caller to run. step() { # step [command lines...] local n="$1" dotext="$2" why="$3" mode="$4"; shift 4 rule " Step $n of 5" prose "$dotext" if [ -n "$why" ]; then echo; prose "$why"; fi if [ "$mode" = "manual" ]; then echo; echo " -> Do this yourself, then press Enter to carry on." if [ "$UNATTENDED" = "0" ] && [ "$DRYRUN" = "0" ]; then read -r _; fi return 1 fi echo; printf " %s\n" "$@"; echo if [ "$DRYRUN" = "1" ]; then echo " (dry run -- not executed)"; return 1; fi if [ "$UNATTENDED" = "0" ]; then read -r -p " Run this step? [Y]es / [S]kip / [Q]uit " a case "$a" in [Qq]*) echo " Stopped at your request."; exit 0 ;; [Ss]*) echo " Skipped."; return 1 ;; esac fi return 0 } rule echo " Certificate renewal fails and the site goes to expired HTTPS" echo " Repair the HTTP challenge path" echo echo " Risk: medium Reversible 30 minutes" echo prose 'No warranty. Use at your own risk - JbTecWiz accepts no liability. Read it before you run it, and have a backup.' rule echo if [ "$UNATTENDED" = "0" ] && [ "$DRYRUN" = "0" ]; then read -r -p " Ready? [y/N] " go case "$go" in [Yy]*) ;; *) echo " Nothing was changed."; exit 0;; esac fi if step 1 'Do a dry run -- it tests everything without consuming a rate limit.' 'The dry run against the staging environment is the correct way to debug this. Repeatedly retrying against production is how a domain hits the failed-validation rate limit and is locked out for an hour on top of everything else.' cmd 'sudo certbot renew --dry-run'; then sudo certbot renew --dry-run if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then failed=$((failed+1)) echo " Step 1 failed. The rest of the fix may depend on it." >&2 fi fi if step 2 'Read the renewal configuration to see what it believes.' '' cmd 'sudo cat /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/example.com.conf'; then sudo cat /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/example.com.conf if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then failed=$((failed+1)) echo " Step 2 failed. The rest of the fix may depend on it." >&2 fi fi if step 3 'Test that the challenge path is actually served over HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS.' '' cmd 'sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/.well-known/acme-challenge' 'echo ok | sudo tee /var/www/html/.well-known/acme-challenge/test' 'curl -sIL http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test | head -12'; then sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/.well-known/acme-challenge echo ok | sudo tee /var/www/html/.well-known/acme-challenge/test curl -sIL http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test | head -12 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then failed=$((failed+1)) echo " Step 3 failed. The rest of the fix may depend on it." >&2 fi fi if step 4 'A redirect to HTTPS is fine as long as it follows through; a redirect to a broken HTTPS is not. Add an explicit exception in nginx so the challenge is always served over plain HTTP.' '' cmd 'printf '\''location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {\n root /var/www/html;\n default_type "text/plain";\n allow all;\n}\n'\'' | sudo tee /etc/nginx/snippets/acme.conf' 'sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx'; then printf 'location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {\n root /var/www/html;\n default_type "text/plain";\n allow all;\n}\n' | sudo tee /etc/nginx/snippets/acme.conf sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then failed=$((failed+1)) echo " Step 4 failed. The rest of the fix may depend on it." >&2 fi fi if step 5 'Confirm DNS points here and that port 80 is open -- Let'\''s Encrypt validates from the internet, not from the machine.' '' cmd 'dig +short example.com' 'curl -sI http://example.com/ | head -3'; then dig +short example.com curl -sI http://example.com/ | head -3 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then failed=$((failed+1)) echo " Step 5 failed. The rest of the fix may depend on it." >&2 fi fi rule " Confirm it worked" prose 'The dry run succeeds, then run the real renewal.' if [ "$DRYRUN" = "0" ]; then sudo certbot renew --dry-run && sudo certbot renew && sudo systemctl reload nginx fi rule if [ "$failed" -gt 0 ]; then echo " Finished with $failed failed step(s)." echo " Read the full write-up at https://jbtecwiz.com/support/lnx-web-certbot" else echo " Finished." fi echo prose 'To undo: The existing certificate is untouched until a renewal succeeds.' rule