Renewing SSL certificate of WHM/cPanel

Answered

Prithviraj Mitra

• July 01, 2025 10:32

Hi there,

Hope all is well.

A few months back, I purchased the WHM/cPanel license via Linode. The URL looks like this - https://<IP address>.cprapid.com:2087 (whm) and https://<IP address>.cprapid.com:2083 (cpanel). The SSL is issued by Let's Encrypt with 90 days validity.

Now the SSL of this subdomain is expiring tomorrow.  I have checked the "User" tab under autossl, but the domain user uses a different SSL provider.  I just want to set up an autorenewal process for the WHM/cPanel with Let's Encrypt

Please let me know how I can do that.

Many thanks,

Raj

• 

  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 01, 2025 16:32

  Hey there!  Ideally you should be setting a custom hostname on the server that uses a real domain that you own.  https://docs.cpanel.net/whm/networking-setup/change-hostname/

  Once that is in place the AutoSSL tools will work normally, or you can force them to run for the hostname with this command:

  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/checkallsslcerts

  1
• 

  Prithviraj Mitra

  • July 01, 2025 20:23

  Yes that would be ideal, but as I have limited time, I'm wondering if it would renew the SSL automatically.

  I might create the custom domain for the next cycle.

   

  0
• 

  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 01, 2025 20:37

  You can still run the command manually anytime and that will show you any errors related to the renewal.

  0
• 

  Prithviraj Mitra

  • July 03, 2025 07:44

  Hi, I have created the custom subdomain which points to the cPanel/WHM and it worked great. I just had to change the hostname from the WHM and update the DNS IP address.

  Thank you for the suggestion.

   

   

  0
• 

  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 03, 2025 14:22

  That's exactly how easy it should be - glad it worked!

  0

Please sign in to leave a comment.