Editing Installing Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates On Namecheap Hosting (section)

=== Timeout polling order status while issuing certificate ===

'''Use case'''

Manually issue a certificate with the following command: 

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ acme.sh --issue --webroot ~/my_webapp_root -d mydomain.com --force
</syntaxhighlight>

'''Expected result'''

`acme.sh` sends request to the CA server and receives successful response.

'''Actual result'''

<pre>
[Sat Apr  9 17:40:56 EDT 2022] Polling order status: https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90/order/dtElfwFq1sLFiXaP188uDw
[Sat Apr  9 17:40:59 EDT 2022] Order status is processing, lets sleep and retry.
[Sat Apr  9 17:40:59 EDT 2022] Retry after: 15
[Sat Apr  9 17:41:15 EDT 2022] Polling order status: https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90/order/dtElfwFq1sLFiXaP188uDw
[Sat Apr  9 17:41:18 EDT 2022] Order status is processing, lets sleep and retry.
[Sat Apr  9 17:41:18 EDT 2022] Retry after: 15
</pre>

Over and over again until finally the script times out with an error similar to this:

<pre>
[Sat Apr  9 17:42:29 EDT 2022] Sign error, wrong status
</pre>

'''Solution'''

This happened using the default acme.sh CA server which is ZeroSSL. Changing the default CA server to Let's Encrypt fixed this.

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ acme.sh --set-default-ca --server letsencrypt
</syntaxhighlight>