How to make sure that Cron task for renewing Let's Encrypt certificates is present in Plesk?

Atif Bangash

Updated January 13, 2026 19:14

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Plesk for Linux

Question

How to make sure that the Cron task for renewing Let's Encrypt certificates is present?

Answer

1. Navigate to Plesk > Tools and Settings > Scheduled Tasks

2. By default there should be the following task with similar content which is responsible for renewing Lets Encrypt certificates:

For RHEL Based OS:

CONFIG_TEXT: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/sslit/scripts/keep-secured.php'

For Debian Based OS:

CONFIG_TEXT: /opt/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/opt/psa/admin/plib/modules/sslit/scripts/keep-secured.php'

For Let's Encrypt before 2.5.0 version

Connect to the server via SSH;
Refer to the output of the following command:

# crontab -l | grep renew
7 21 * * * /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/letsencrypt/scripts/renew.php'

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