Replacing 3rd-party service SSL cert with a cPanel-signed cert

[mtindor]

Hello,

I have a server running a Geotrust certificate on the primary hostname / cPanel services. That Geotrust certificate expires in six days. I would have expected the nightly UPCP to have already replaced this certificate with a cPanel-signed certificate but it has not.

Am I wrong in thinking that it should replace it?

If I want to replace the Geotrust cert on cPanel services with a cPanel signed certificate prior to expiration, how do I go about doing that? I'm trying to avoid any long period of time whereby it might generate a temporary self-signed certificate. I simply want to have a new cPanel-signed certificate provisioned and applied for the cPanel services tied to the primary hostname.

I don't have anything in place that would disable this, such as /var/cpanel/ssl/disable*

When I read the documentation about the cPanel-signed SSL, it seems to suggest that it won't replace a 3rd party certificate until it is actually expired, and that once the 3rd party cert expires it will generate a self-signed certificate to replace the expired certificate until the next time UPCP runs.

Mike

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello Mike,

We document information about the free cPanel-signed SSL certificate for the server's hostname at:

Free cPanel-Signed Hostname Certificate - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation

The cPanel-signed certificate should replace the existing certificate if it's set to expire within a week's time. Try running the following command manually to see if you notice any output during the certificate generation:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/checkallsslcerts

Thank you.

 

[mtindor]

Michael,

I read the documentation. The documentation doesn't specifically address my question, or isn't clear regarding the answer to my question. My buddy already told me that it isn't going to replace my third party cert until the current one expires, at which time it will replace with a self-signed cert until the next UPCP is run.

So tonight I'll just remove the old cert (even though it isn't quite expired) so that I can then run the check script outside of prime hours and make sure it updates quickly. I don't want anyone to latch on, for even a moment, to a self-signed certificate.

Thanks