Adding more certificates to existing letsencrypt installation

General Docker
1

I used the following command to set up letsencrypt with all my domains

docker run -d \
 --restart always \
 --name=letsencrypt \
 -h letsencrypt \
 -p 80:80 \
 -p 443:443 \
 --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
 -e PUID=1001 \
 -e PGID=1001 \
 -e TZ=Asia/Nicosia \
 -e URL=domain1 \
 -e SUBDOMAINS=www, \
 -e VALIDATION=http \
 -e EMAIL=email@domain.net \
 -e EXTRA_DOMAINS=domain2,domain3,domain4,domain5 \
 -v letsencrypt:/config \
 linuxserver/letsencrypt

Works great by the way, thanks for your hard work.

Now I want to add a couple more domains, but I’m afraid if I run the same command again, with the new domains I want to add, it might mess up the existing domains and certificates I have running.

What is the correct way of adding a few more domains (and their certificates of course) to an existing letsencrypt installation?

Thanks

2

The only way to do it is to remove the current container and then run the command again with the new domains added. Then you will see if it works.

3

I understand that trying a bunch of things will eventually give me the answer. But I wanted to avoid that, so I asked the question, what is the proper way of doing this?

4

That is the proper way of doing this. as @saarg mentioned, you need to destroy the current container you’ve created and re-run the command you used with the additional domains you want to setup.

5

Won’t that request new certificates for all the domains from lesencrypt? Or will it find the existing certificates and not request new ones?

6

No unless you end up using a different volume for your /config mount. When the container boots, it will detect the changes you made and request certs* for the extra domains.

*It’s not actually multiple certs, it’s one cert that is useable with all your domains.

7

great, thanks for your help!