Does Let's Encrypt renew automatically?

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Hi there i saw this statement in the docs:

Ghost’s CLI tool attempts to automatically configure SSL certificates for all new Ghost installs with Let’s Encrypt by default.

But i was wondering if it also renew it automatically when expires?

Thanks.

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It should, yes! The cli uses acme.sh to manage SSL certificates, which internally schedules a cron job to renew certificates (and reload nginx) as needed.

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“Oh, great to hear that! However, when I ran crontab -l, I didn’t see any scheduled cron commands.”

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I think there’s a separate user for it, possibly le-bot

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