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geoorgeous/certbot crontab job

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crontab file edit for certbot auto renewal twice a day (00:00 and 12:00). Also restarts specified web server service upon completing the certificate renewal. Currently using on *and only tested on* my RaspberryPi Raspbian Apache2 web server
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certbot crontab job
# This line of text should be included in your crontab file which can be edited by
# running the following command:
# sudo crontab -e
# SERVER_SERVICE should be replaced with whatever service is running your web server,
# for example 'apache2' or 'nginx'
0 */12 * * * root certbot renew --post-hook "service SERVER_SERVICE restart"
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