[Icecast] Icecast2 and SSL certificate renewal

[Philipp Schafft]

Good Morning,

On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 14:05 +1300, Ross Levis wrote:
> Is there any method to do that on Windows?

There is a reload link on the admin web interface on 2.5.x.

It points to /admin/reloadconfig.xsl; if you want to do it
programmatically you can just call /admin/reloadconfig with admin
credentials.

Reloading via API is not yet supported by 2.4.4.


With best regards,

> From: Icecast [mailto:icecast-bounces at xiph.org] On Behalf Of
> Alejandro Ferrari
> Sent: Friday, 11 March 2022 12:54 pm
> To: Icecast streaming server user discussions
> Subject: Re: [Icecast] Icecast2 and SSL certificate renewal
>  
> Hi Damian, 
>  
> Kill -HUP $PID
>  
> That will reload the config without stop the streams.
>  
> El jue, 10 mar 2022 a la(s) 18:57, Damian (db76 at riseup.net) escribió:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I have a question about current best-practice for renewing SSL
> > certificates for Icecast.
> > I am looking into automating the renewal process for my SSL
> > certificate using Let’s Encrypt.
> > However, it’s my understanding that the Icecast server would need
> > to be restarted each time the automatic process takes place (every
> > 3 months) which I think would be disruptive to running a continuous
> > streaming service. 
> > All the listeners would be kicked off the streams.
> > 
> > I’d like to know if anyone knows of a better solution or if this is
> > just an unavoidable problem in terms of running streams via HTTPS.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help
> > 
> > Damian


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