Why do I see a different site than I’m supposed to, an SSL warning, signon.php, or too many redirects?
If you’re visiting a site and seeing a different site than expected, or an SSL warning, or a weird “Your sessions has ended”, there are a couple of scenarios for it, but it always ties back to not having a valid SSL. Below will walk you through the common scenarios and provide links to the […]
Monit SSL Renewal Failure Notification in the Dashboard or Slack
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The SSL Monitoring Logs Reviewing the Logs What Causes SSL Renewal Failures? Introduction Monit checks your SSL renewal logs once per day and if a renewal failure has occurred it will trigger a notification in your dashboard and send a notification to Slack (if you have Slack notifications enabled). Often a […]
vCanopy SSL Locks, Let’s Encrypt Rate Limiting, and What to Do if Your Website Get’s Rate Limited
In order to prevent your websites from getting rate limited by Let’s Encrypt, vCanopy has created a 3-attempt limit fail-safe that requires manual removal after 3 unsuccessful SSL attempts. This article will explain why we’ve put this in place, the steps to remove it, and how to avoid it from happening altogether. Also, you can […]
Diagnosing and Fixing SSL Certificate Issues
CONTENTS Diagnosing SSL Failures Maintenance at Let’s Encrypt, DNSME, or Cloudflare DNS Isn’t Pointing to Your Servers IP Address (Webroot method only) vCanopy SSL Locks Let’s Encrypt Rate Limiting A Wildcard SSL won’t provision You have an SSL Certificate but no Padlock Icon SSL Renewal Warnings and Failures Too Many Redirects Error SSL Error Only on www Version […]
SSL Renewals for Domains that Redirect to an Internal Page
Intro If you have a website where you’ve set up a redirect that looks like this via an Nginx configuration file: old-domain.com —-> new-domain.com/something This article is for you. Regular redirect domains that are added via the Site customizer will not experience the same SSL renewal errors. The Renewal Error If you’ve received an SSL […]
How to Manually Renew Monit and PHPMyAdmin SSL Certificates
On occasion, some Monit and PHPMyAdmin (PHPMA) SSL certificates fail to automatically renew, which can result in these becoming unavailable due to an SSL certificate error (for example “NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID”). It’s important to note that this is only one of the possible reasons why this may not be able to access Monit/PHPMA, and you may also […]