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    • AMG A35A
      AMG A35
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      I have 23.05 running on a Protectli FW6C. When I started out, I imported Let's Encrypt certificates using P12 files. I imported several of my domain certs, and they all used the same CA certs. I then moved to using ACME on pfSense to generate wild card certificates for just two domains. This action created duplicates of the CA certs.

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      The certs added by ACME are the third and fourth. The original R3 certs shows it is being used by the two ACME created certs.

      I have looked in the configuration XML file and see the CA certs have unique <caref> entries. The ACME created domain certs have <caref> entries for the original R3 CA cert, not the one created by ACME.

      I guess ACME is looking for CA certs named "Acmecert..." but the Certificate Manager is selecting the original R3.

      How can I safely remove the original imported CA certs and use the two ACME created please?

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      • AMG A35A
        AMG A35 @AMG A35
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        @AMG-A35
        Thinking this through if nobody has any suggestions, I might try renaming the two original CA certs to "Acmecert: ..." and delete the ACME created ones.

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @AMG A35
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          @AMG-A35 said in Duplicate Lets Encrypt CA certificates:

          I might try renaming the two original CA certs to "Acmecert: ..." and delete the ACME created ones

          why would you not just delete your external ones?

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          • AMG A35A
            AMG A35 @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz The meta data in my config file links my two domain certs to the original CA certs. I'm worried that if I delete those certs I will not have a full chain for my domains. One of these domains is used by pfSense GUI so I don't want trouble accessing the GUI.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @AMG A35
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              @AMG-A35 well test it.. simple enough to allow http access to your gui, then delete your external cert. Can you still get to the https? If not either get a new cert, or put your externals back.

              But deleting the acme certs - guess what, when you run acme again more than likely it will just put its cas back.

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