How to fix ssl expiry on Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Steps for Adobe Commerce (Magento)

1. Adobe Commerce Cloud: SSL certificates are managed by Adobe's infrastructure. Log in to the Cloud Console (https://cloud.magento.com), navigate to your environment, and confirm the domain's SSL status under Environments → [your env] → Routes.
2. For self-hosted Magento Open Source: log in to your server, check Certbot with `sudo certbot certificates`, and ensure a renewal cron/timer is active (`sudo systemctl status certbot.timer`).
3. After renewal, clear the full-page cache in Admin → System → Cache Management and flush the Varnish cache if applicable.
4. Confirm Magento's Base URLs under Admin → Stores → Configuration → General → Web both use 'https://'.

What is ssl expiry?

A TLS (SSL) certificate is the digital credential that puts the padlock in your visitors' browser bar and enables the secure "https://" connection to your store. Every certificate has an expiry date — typically 90 days (Let's Encrypt) or 1–2 years (paid CAs). When it expires, browsers immediately block visitors with a full-screen "Your connection is not private" warning, and the padlock disappears. Auto-renewal is a process (a scheduled script or a hosting feature) that requests a fresh certificate a few weeks before the old one expires, so the swap happens invisibly to shoppers.

An expired certificate is an emergency: every visitor sees a hard browser warning and most will leave instantly, causing an immediate and total loss of sales. Google also uses HTTPS as a ranking signal, so a lapsed certificate can drop your organic rankings. Payment processors and card networks require an active TLS certificate — an expired cert can cause checkout failures and put you in breach of PCI-DSS compliance. Setting up auto-renewal costs nothing and takes minutes; ignoring it risks hours or days of complete store downtime.

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