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Adding 'What Is a Certificate' section
- adding what.rst to index.rst - Bigger link to instruction generator in intro.rst, some edits to what.rst in response to comments on What is a Certificate? section first draft #4370 - Responding to St_Ranger's comment on 4370 - Edits to using.rst related to --expand - Initial edit pass through challenges.rst - Edits to what.rst and challenges.rst to resolve #3664 and #4153 - Incorpoprating feedback from #4370 - Finally going after those last few comments before the restructuring of the plugin stuff (coming soon) - Fixing --expand example in using.rst and adding to Apache/NGINX bullet in challenges.rst
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@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ using the ``--cert-name`` flag to specify a particular certificate for the ``run
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certbot certonly --cert-name example.com
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.. _updating_certs:
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Re-creating and Updating Existing Certificates
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----------------------------------------------
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@@ -324,7 +325,24 @@ need to issue this command in normal circumstances.
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``--expand`` tells Certbot to update an existing certificate with a new
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certificate that contains all of the old domains and one or more additional
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new domains.
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new domains. With the ``--expand`` option, use the ``-d`` option to specify
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all existing domains and one or more new domains.
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Example:
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.. code-block:: none
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certbot --expand -d existing.com example.com,newdomain.com
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If you prefer, you can specify the domains individually like this:
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.. code-block:: none
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certbot --expand -d existing.com -d example.com -d newdomain.com
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Consider using ``--cert-name`` instead of ``--expand``, as it gives more control
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over which certificate is modified and it lets you remove domains as well as adding them.
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``--allow-subset-of-names`` tells Certbot to continue with certificate generation if
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only some of the specified domain authorizations can be obtained. This may
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@@ -338,8 +356,10 @@ certificate counts against several rate limits that are intended to prevent
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abuse of the ACME protocol, as described
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`here <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-encrypt/6769>`__.
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.. _changing:
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Changing a Certificate's Domains
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The ``--cert-name`` flag can also be used to modify the domains a certificate contains,
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by specifying new domains using the ``-d`` or ``--domains`` flag. If certificate ``example.com``
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