reload Certwarden (Docker)

adilette

Hi Community

Is there an elegant way to reload Certwarden without restarting the entire Docker container to load a renewed server certificate?

I was recently informed about an expired certificate on a server. I found out that the certificate was expired in the Certwarden frontend. The deployment of the renewed certificate on the remote server failed (untrusted certificate).

After a restart of Certwarden (Docker), everything worked again. In the config I have entered my wildcard as "certficitae_name" (instead of "serverdefault") and assumed that Certwarden would then load the renewed certificate automatically. Apparently it does not.

Now, I could use a cronjob to reload the container every few days, but this is ugly. Maybe there is a solution with the post-processing scripts?

Cheers,
adliette

gregtwallace

The config file is only read on start up. If you need to change which cert it’s using you have to restart.

Once you’ve got the certificate set, any renewal will automatically update the certificate Cert Warden is serving.

adilette

Again, an unnecessary forum post on my part. I was sure that I had restarted Certwarden multiple timessince then. But it doesn't seem to be so.

This was easy to test: I initiated a manual renewal and then looked up the certificate in the browser. It was loaded.

Thank you, Greg.

gregtwallace

No worries. We've all done such things. 🙂