SSL expired in browser despite new certificate installed when running ea-nginx

Symptoms

When using ea-nginx, updated certificates provided by AutoSSL are not being served. Even after restarting NGINX or clearing the cache, the issue persists.

Description

If NGINX is gracefully shut down, it can, at times, hold processes open. If these processes are held open, the configuration is not reloaded.

Workarounds

NGINX can be fully shut down and reloaded to ensure the latest certificates are installed:

/scripts/restartsrv_nginx --hard