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Renew your server certificate for AWS Client VPN

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Renew your server certificate for AWS Client VPN - AWS Client VPN

You can renew and re-import a Client VPN server certificate that has expired. Depending on the version of OpenVPN easy-rsa that you're using, the procedure will vary. See Easy-RSA 3 Certificate Renewal and Revocation Documentation for more details.

To renew your server certificate
  1. Do one of the following:

    • Easy-RSA version 3.1.x

      1. Run the certificate renew command.

        $ ./easyrsa renew server nopass
    • Easy-RSA version 3.2.x

      1. Run the expire command.

        $ ./easyrsa expire server
      2. Sign a new certificate.

        $ ./easyrsa --san=DNS:server sign-req server server
  2. Create a custom folder, copy the new files to it, then navigate into the folder.

    $ mkdir ~/custom_folder2 $ cp pki/ca.crt ~/custom_folder2/ $ cp pki/issued/server.crt ~/custom_folder2/ $ cp pki/private/server.key ~/custom_folder2/ $ cd ~/custom_folder2/
  3. Import the new files to ACM. Be sure to import them in the same Region as the Client VPN endpoint.

    $ aws acm import-certificate \ --certificate fileb://server.crt \ --private-key fileb://server.key \ --certificate-chain fileb://ca.crt \ --certificate-arn arn:aws:acm:region:123456789012:certificate/12345678-1234-1234-1234-12345678901
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